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When a Comet is near the sun, what happens to the nucleus

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When the comet gets closer to the sun, the comet starts getting warmer, the ice heats up and becomes a gas. The dusty gas is coming from the nucleus and it forms a hot cloud around the comet called the coma.
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it becomes gas because when the comet nears the sun, the sun freezes the comet causing it to become gas.
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