Asteroid’s Comet-Like Tail Is Not Made of Dust, Solar Observatories Reveal

NASA solar observatories have revealed that asteroid Phaethon’s comet-like tail is made of sodium escaping the asteroid, not dust as scientists had long thought.


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Source: NASA Goddard Center