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How to See Comet Neowise Before It’s Gone – WIRED
The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on Thursday before it fades into black. Here’s how you can catch a glimpse.
In late March, a team of astronomers working on a space telescope mission called Neowise discovered a comet booking it past the sun, 160 million miles away from Earth. The comet, officially known as C/2020 F3 but usually just referred to as Neowise, is a 3-mile-wide chunk of ice and dust on a 6,000-year loop around the solar system. Its just one of thousands of space rocks discovered with the Neowise telescope, but its trajectory means that for a few weeks this summer it will give observers in t…
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