Comet by costapanos

Photography • Macro • posted on May 25, 2010

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Thank you for all the comments and views on all my past posts. It is greatly appreciated! This was taken at The Exploratorium a hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco. When you drop a piece of dry ice in a bucket of water, the gas that you see is a combination of carbon dioxide and water vapor. So, the gas that you see is actually a cloud of tiny water droplets. This little experiment showed what a comet would look like in space as it nears the sun and starts to vaporize.