Magnetotail: Scientists Confirm Earth Has A Two-Million-Km Tail Stretching Into Space

Magnetotail: Scientists Confirm Earth Has A Two-Million-Km Tail Stretching Into Space

Most people associate cosmic tails with comets, those brilliant streams of gas and dust trailing behind icy bodies as they race around the Sun. But Earth, too, has a tail. And unlike a comet’s shimmering plume, Earth’s tail is invisible, enormous, and created not by dust but by the ceaseless push of the solar wind. According to NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), Earth’s invisible tail, known as the magnetotail, extends at least two millio…