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APOD: 2020 July 27 Á Comet and Lightning Beyond Bighorn Mountains
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Credit & Copyright: Kevin Palmer
Explanation:
Normally, Steamboat Point looks cool -- but not this cool.
Every day, the iconic peak of the Bighorn Mountains is an interesting sight, in particular
from
US Highway 14
in
Wyoming.
On some rare days, the
rocky vertical ridges
look even more incredible when seen in front of a
distant lightning storm.
Earlier this month, though,
something even more unusual happened -- the naked-eye
Comet NEOWISE rose above it in the middle of the night.
Just as a distant
lightning storm was occurring in the background.
Recognizing a rare opportunity, a determined astrophotographer
spent a sleepless night capturing
over 1400 images of this unusual
triple conjunction.
The featured image is among the best of them, with the foreground lit by the
Moon off to the right.
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) is now
headed back to the outer
Solar System, destined to return only in about 6700
years.
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NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2024 December 16 Á A Kilometer High Cliff on Comet Churyumov Gerasimenko
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- APOD: 2024 November 11 Á The Unusual Tails of Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas
- APOD: 2024 November 6 Á Comet Tsuchinshan Atlas over the Dolomites
- APOD: 2024 October 21 Á Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS over California
- Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS Flys Away
- Most of Comet Tsuchinshan ATLAS