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14 paź 2024 · The anti-tail is often said to be an optical illusion, because it appears in the opposite direction from the comet’s dust tail. But it is, in fact, a real phenomenon, visible only when Earth...
An antitail is an apparent spike projecting from a comet's coma which seems to go towards the Sun, and thus geometrically opposite to the other tails: the ion tail and the dust tail. Despite a common misunderstanding, this phenomenon is not an optical illusion .
The comet rapidly approached Earth and developed the typical tail pointing away from the sun, as well as an "anti-tail" pointing directly toward the sun. This unusual configuration is fairly rare and only happens when Earth passes through the orbital plane of a rather bright comet.
15 paź 2024 · The European Space Agency shared a video on Tuesday from its sun-watching SOHO spacecraft that shows Comet A3 looking like a glowing streak of light. You can even see an unusual "anti-tail ...
16 paź 2024 · The phenomenon, known as an anti-tail, is an optical illusion caused by the Earth's position in the comet's orbital plane.
15 paź 2024 · New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling extra limb is the result of a rare illusion that is only possible...
