Researchers recently proved a 90-year-old theory on why comets’ heads, but never the tails, are green, by spectroscopic investigation of an accidentally-discovered deviation in the dicarbon molecule.
The molecule responsible for the emerald hue gets blown apart by sunlight within a couple of days of being created near the comet’s core, leaving almost nothing to glow green in the tail.
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