The Sun's Magnetic Influence Helps Shape a Comet's Tail

[embed]https://youtu.be/2WQGyAUUvMs[/embed]It turns out that the sun’s magnetic field can shape and push the dust of a comet’s tail, according to a revelation made possible by one young scientist’s innovative new image-processing technique.
Comet Dust
In 2007, scientists were elated when NASA’s STEREO spacecraft laid its “eyes” on Comet C/2006 P1, also known as Comet McNaught — named after astronomer Robert McNaught, who discovered the comet a year prior