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A comets is small,frozen body in the Solar sysrem that,as it gets close to the Sun,warm up and starts to expel gases, a process known as outgassing.

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It's undeniably thrilling to stargaze at night beneath a brilliant starry sky. However, the allure grows as one of the celestial bodies travels from one location to another, trailing a bright trail in its wake. Then you start to wonder, "What was that?" It had to be a comet, you think.

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Undoubtedly, stargazing at night under a gorgeous starry sky is incredibly exciting. But the attraction intensifies when one of the things that like stars moves from one place to another, leaving a trail of light behind it. Then, the thought, "What was that?" enters your head.That had to be a comet, then.

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The Old English term "cometa" comes from the Latin word "comēta" or "comētēs." The Oxford English Dictionary adds that the term (ἀστὴρ) κομήτης already meant 'long-haired star, comet' in Greek. This is a romanization of the Greek κομήτης, which means 'wearing long hair'. The term Κομήτης originated from the verb κομᾶv (koman), meaning "to wear the hair long." This term was derived from the verb κόμη (komē), meaning "the hair of the head," and was used to refer to a comet's tail.

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The nucleus of a comet is its solid core structure. Comets with a higher dust content have been dubbed "icy dirtballs."The term "icy dirtballs" arose after Comet 9P/Tempel 1 collided with a "impactor" probe sent by NASA Deep Impact mission in July 2005. Cometary nuclei are composed of an amalgamation of rock, dust, water ice, frozen carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and ammonia. As a result, they are popularly described as "dirty snowballs" after Fred Whipple's model. According to research done in 2014, comets resemble "deep-fried ice cream" in that the inside ice is less thick and colder than the surface ice, which is composed of dense crystalline ice combined with organic molecules.