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OCR: FACT FILE THE NUCLEUS of a comet is only a few kilometers across. The tail, however, can be much longer. The Great Comet of 1843 had a tail 330 million km (205 million miles) long. Comet tails contain a lower density of matter than the best laboratory vacuum created on Earth.