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Describe the composition and characteristics of tail stars (comets).

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Tail stars are composed of ice, dust particles, small rocks and gaseous elements.

Following are their characteristics:

1. Their velocity is very high. 

2. They revolve around the sun in a fixed elliptical orbit. 

3. The head of comet always faces the sun and the tail points in opposite direction. 

4. Sometime, they come near to the sun, and sometime, they move away from it significantly.

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