Dust Tail
Dust Tail - The short, reddish, dusty tail of a comet; as a comet warms when nearing the Sun, dust particles are released from the nucleus and pushed into a fantail shape by the pressure of sunlight.
The image shows a short, reddish tail extending outward from a comet nucleus (see red arrow).
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150721.html
Author: Pablo Olortegui, UCF Undergraduate 2017
Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of
2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics