Groucho's Fact Hunt




A Comets tail doesn’t indicate its direction of travel (as the movies would have you believe), but its position in relation to the sun.

The radiation and solar wind can melt surface ice and release gasses and dust causing a tail to form, which always points away from the sun:

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