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How to catch a glimpse of the comet NEOWISE dazzling the skies right now – The Verge
The comet NEOWISE just passed close by the Sun and is putting on a spectacular display in the early morning skies right now. Discovered by a NASA mission, the comet will be visible for the next week after sunset, before eventually going dark.
Seeing this comet is truly a once-in-a-lifetime event
Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE Near Barcelona.
Photo by Albert Llop / NurPhoto via Getty Images
For any early birds who have ventured outside in the US this week, you may have seen a tiny yet spectacular sight in the pre-dawn sky. A comet with a bright, opulent tail has been gracing the skies in the wee morning hours before sunrise, and its been giving photographers quite the show for the last week.
The comet is known as Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE or just NEOWISE for short. Scientists just discovered the rock on March 27th. It gets its name from the NASA mission that discovered it, also called NEOWISE, for Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The mission consists of a spacecraft in orbit around Earth thats tasked with cataloging as many asteroids near Earth as possible especially any that might be potentially hazardous to our planet. But when the team behind the NEOWISE mission spotted this object, they knew they had found something special.
In the discovery images, it immediately was obvious that something was up.
In the discovery images, it immediately was obvious that something was up, Amy Mainzer, the principal investigator for NEOWISE at the University of Arizona, tells The Verge. Instead of
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