Dirty Snowball (Comet Song)

A factual song about comets in our solar system. To learn more about comets, see NASA's webpage on them here: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system... Lyrics: From the frozen edge of space... A visitor with a glowing face... I'm a dirty snowball hurtling through Ice and dust and rock — just a few Born in the Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud far A frozen wanderer beneath the stars When I get close enough to the Sun My ices heat up — and the show's begun! A glowing coma blooms around my head A tail of gas and dust — miles widespread! And here's the coolest thing you need to know My tail always points away — not the way I go! Solar wind is pushing it aside No matter which direction that I ride! Dirty snowball! Blazing through the night! Dirty snowball! Burning tail of light! Short-period comets from the Kuiper Belt Long-period from the Oort Cloud — that's how we're dealt! Dirty snowball — nucleus just a mile Dirty snowball — every once in a while Streaking across the sky for you to see A dirty snowball — wild and free! Halley's Comet — every seventy-five years Last came in eighty-six — it reappears! In twenty-sixty-one it comes again The most famous comet ever seen by humans then! Two tails I carry — not just one An ion tail of blue glows from the Sun A dust tail curves along the path I've flown The most dramatic visitor the sky has known! Dirty snowball! Blazing through the night! Dirty snowball! Burning tail of light! Short-period comets from the Kuiper Belt Long-period from the Oort Cloud — that's how we're dealt! Billions of years I've travelled out here Once every century I might appear Look up at the sky on a clear dark night A dirty snowball — pure delight... @NASA Background image is of Halley's Comet from 1986: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system... #comet #halleyscomet #dirtysnowball #kuiperbelt #oortcloud #spacesongsforkids #NASA #solarsystem #80smusic #kidssongs #music 🎵 More in this playlist:    • Space Songs (80s style music focused on ed...   🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3n1bd... 👕 Kids shirts: https://hughughug.printful.me/ ✅ Subscribe for new songs every weekday!