Comet ☄
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A comet with a blazing tail — representing the icy celestial objects that develop dramatic tails as they approach the sun, producing some of history's most spectacular astronomical events. Halley's Comet, visible roughly every 76 years, has been recorded in historical documents going back over 2,000 years. Comets have historically been interpreted as omens — of war, plague, or the fall of rulers — because their appearance was so irregular and dramatic.

The comet's distinctive blazing tail has made it a symbol of sudden, dramatic arrival. Used for astronomy content, descriptions of sudden spectacular appearances ('arrived like a comet'), celestial events, and expressing the specific energy of something that appears dramatically, blazes brilliantly, and then recedes into distance.