Show the comets tail I 1 ail the tall of a comet Is composed ot of gas existing in a highly rare rarefied fled condition little particles of electricity called corpuscles corpus cles or ions are being abeln constantly given oft off at enormous speed by chii sun each meteorite in he comets head Is surrounded by its own rarefied atmosphere when one of at these little tons ions strikes one ot at the he molecules of gas in the comets atmosphere mo Lao sphere it carries it oc with it to form orin the tall the electrical charge charas makes the gas luminous and it Is by this light ind not by reflected sunlight that the tall Is made visible to us A comets tall tail therefore seems to be merely a very extended century |