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Offgassing occurs when comets, meteors, meteorites etc. are heated by an outside force (such as the sun or the atmosphere of a planet.)
This heating causes the frozen gasses and particles of the object to vaporize, creating the clouds of gas and particles that surround comets and make them visible.
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