Comet
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- Shortcode
:comet:- Unicode
U+2604- HTML
☄- CSS
\2604- JavaScript
"\u{2604}"- URL
%E2%98%84%EF%B8%8F
What ☄️ means
A comet blazing through space with a fiery tail. It stands for space and astronomy, but also for something fast, rare or about to hit hard.
Sky-watchers share it for comet sightings and meteor showers. Online it often shows up in dark jokes wishing a giant rock would end a bad week, next to 🦖 or 🌍.
Facts
Comet ☄️ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under sky weather. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :comet:. People also look for it with words like “space”.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.