Gas Tail
Gas Tail - The long, bluish, ion tail of a comet; as a comet warms when nearing the Sun, ions are released from the nucleus and pushed into a long and straight tail by the solar wind.
This image shows a comet with two tails. The red arrow points to the gas tail of the comet.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150721.html
Author: Abigail Hirn, UCF Undergraduate 2017
Editor: Patrick Joiner, UCF Interdisciplinary Studies, Class of
2018
Senior Editor: M.M. Montgomery, Ph.D, UCF Physics