☄️

Comet Emoji ☄️

A bright object streaking across a starry background, trailing a long fiery tail behind it. Real comet sightings and space content use it literally, while everyday texting borrows it for anything rare, fast, or once-in-a-blue-moon: a viral post blowing up, a sudden glow-up, a hot streak nobody saw coming and probably won't stick around.

What ☄️ means

An orange rocky ball enclosed by a fiery layer that expands with a tail behind. The entire structure moves from the bottom right corner to the left top corner, such that the tail is at the former.

The ☄️ Comet emoji represents a snowball in space or in the universe. Apart from suggesting an element of outer space, this emoji can also signify speed, power, and potential.

How and when to use it

If you're texting someone close about a person who repeatedly comes into your life and vanishes, use ☄️ to represent that comet in your life.
Similarly, use ☄️ while talking about comet relationships! The previous point is general, whereas this use-case is particularly romantic. For example, "He comes back every six months, gets close to me for two weeks and vanishes. Like WTF?! ☄️".
☄️ looks like an ice ball on some platforms, and a fireball on others. If it looks like a fireball in the platform you're using, then bring this emoji into those intoxicated contexts!
Use ☄️ in the caption while sharing news posts about meteors, meteor crashes, comets, etc.

Other Names

☄️ Haley's Comet
☄️ Falling Star
☄️ Fireball
☄️ Meteorite
☄️ Meteoride
☄️ Meteor
☄️ Approaching Comet
☄️ Fireball
☄️ Ice Ball

The lowdown

Category: Travel & Places › sky & weather
Codepoints: U+2604 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :comet: GitHub
Keywords: comet, space

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.