Blue color of ion (plasma) comet tails What exactly is the cause of blue light of ion (plasma) tails of comets? Somewhere I have read that the source of blue light are CO+ ions which has just acquired the missing electron and became neutral molecule CO. Is this correct?
Close, but not quite right - the blue light is indeed emission from CO$^+$, but it's from the CO$^+$ ions themselves, with no need for recombination to CO; that (ionized) molecule has a strong set of energy transitions around 425 nm (4250 Angstroms), which is in the blue part of the visible spectrum:

Spectrum of Comet C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS), Figure 2 from Cochran and McKay (2018).
There's more on the physics of comet tails from Chris Mihos here.