Cosmic Snowballs: Unveiling the Top 10 Mysteries of Comets

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Today, we're venturing into the depths of the universe, peering into the icy hearts of celestial wanderers - you guessed it! We're talking about comets, those cosmic snowballs of frozen gas, rock, and dust that orbit the sun.

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European Southern Observatory, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuiper_Belt%27s_ice_cores_(28090044146).jpg
NASA / JPL-Caltech, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17046_-_Voyager_1_Goes_Interstellar.jpg
NASA/W. Liller, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lspn_comet_halley.jpg
E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria (http://www.sternwarte.at), CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Comet_Hale-Bopp_1995O1.jpg
Scott Buckley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NEOWISE_from_the_International_space_station.webm
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UMD/Pat Rawlings, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA07923_modest.jpg
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