Like space rocks, comets are associated to be leftovers with planet development in the Solar System about 4.6 billion years prior. Be that as it may, while space rocks are by and large involved shake and metal, comets are progressively likened to messy snowballs. They are made out of solidified gases, for example, carbon dioxide, methane, and smelling salts, just as water ice, in which residue particles and rough material are inserted. As a comet moves toward the Sun, sun powered radiation “liquefies” the surface, disintegrating particles of gas and dust and making the splendid tail comets are best known for. A comet’s tail will consistently point away from the Sun, which means it doesn’t generally trail behind the comet on its adventure, yet rather can go adjacent to or before it.
Where do they originate from?
Comets burn through the greater part of their lives far away from the Sun in the far off ranges of the nearby planetary group. They fundamentally begin from two districts: the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud. The Kuiper Belt is a circle made for the most part out of cold bodies that stretches from about Neptune’s circle (around 30 AU from the Sun by and large) out to around 50 AU from the Sun. The Oort Cloud is at the edges of the Sun’s gravitational impact (around 50,000 to 200,000 AU) and partitioned into two areas: the inward, circle like Hills cloud, and the external circular cloud, both made out of frosty bodies. Brief period comets, which circle the Sun in 200 years or less, are typically Kuiper Belt objects, while extensive stretch comets that take hundreds or thousands of years to circle the Sun by and large originate from the Oort Cloud.

Summary from Sky And Telescope.