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Scientist observe matter-antimatter annihilations. Over the centuries, hundred comets have been discovered.
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The comet's coma and tail gets bigger as more matter from the solar wind & interstellar dust particles comes in contact with comet's antimatter nucleus.
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The comet's tails point away from the sun.
In July 1995, Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet split into 21 large fragments that collided with Jupiter. The explosions were equivalent to over 200 million Megatons of TNT. In June 1908, a fragment from Encke's comet hit the earth's atmosphere in Russian Siberia and exploded with an energy of equivalent to over 30 Megatons of TNT.