The following figures show four positions (1-4) of a comet during its orbit of the Sun. Also shown is the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. Rank the positions of the comet from left to right based on the size of its tail, from shortest to longest. (Not to scale; tails not shown.)

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3, 1, 2, 4 is the arrangement according to their comet's tail.

The length of a comet's tail depends primarily on the comet's distance from the sun. It is longer when the comet is closer to the sun and shorter or (Negligible) when the comet is farther from the sun.

Due to sunlight's radiation pressure, the comet's tail will always point away from the sun. Small dust particles are pushed away from the sun by sunlight with a stronger force than by gravity pulling them in the opposite direction. As a result, a comet's tail streams behind the nucleus during its inbound transit, but it streams in front of the nucleus during its outbound passage back to the outer solar system. Typically, gas jets produced by thawing frozen volatiles expel dust particles from a comet's surface.

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