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Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of dust, rock and ices that range in size but heat up and spew gases and dust when close to the sun forming a glowing head and tail that can stretch for millions of miles.

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Comets

Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of dust, rock and ices that range in size but heat up and spew gases and dust when close to the sun forming a glowing head and tail that can stretch for millions of miles.

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Comets

Comets are frozen leftovers from the formation of the solar system composed of
dust, rock and ices. They range from a few miles to tens of miles wide, but as they
orbit closer to the sun, they heat up and spew gases and dust into a glowing head
that can be larger than a planet. This material forms a tail that stretches millions of
miles.

Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun. When frozen, they
are the size of a small town. When a comet's orbit brings it close to the Sun, it heats up and spews
dust and gases into a giant glowing head larger than most planets. The dust and gases form a tail
that stretches away from the Sun for millions of miles. There are likely billions of comets orbiting
our Sun in the Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud.

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