Easy captions to put on a comet picture
- Nucleus — The icy snowball at the center.
- Coma — The fuzzy glowing cloud around the snowball.
- Dust tail — A fluffy yellowish tail made of tiny bits of dust.
- Ion (gas) tail — A straight bluish tail made of gas pushed by the Sun.
- Sun — The big hot star that makes the tails appear.
- Orbit path — The path the comet follows around the Sun.
Very simple step-by-step (say this to a 5-year-old)
- Think of a comet like a dirty snowball flying in space.
- When the comet comes close to the Sun, the Sun warms it and the ice turns into a fuzzy cloud (that is the coma).
- Dust and gas get blown away and make two tails: one fluffy dust tail and one straight gas tail.
- The tails always point away from the Sun, like hair blowing from the sun's wind.
Use the short captions above under each part on your picture. Keep each caption small so a child can read and point to the parts easily.