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What happens to a comet when it gets close to the sun? Explain the two tails

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When it gets to the it grows warmer and some of the ices heat up and become gas (sublimating), relaying the dust grains that were trapped in the ice. The dusty gas coming from the nucleus is heated by the sun and for,a a glowing hit cloud around the comment called coma.
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