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Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek /
Institute of Physics in Opava
Explanation:
It was just last July.
If you could see the stars of
the Big Dipper, you could find
Comet NEOWISE in your evening sky.
After sunset
denizens of the north could look for the naked-eye comet
below the bowl of that famous celestial kitchen utensil
and above the northwestern horizon.
The comet looked like a fuzzy 'star' with a tail, though probably not so
long a tail as in this
memorable skyview
recorded from the Czech Republic on July 23th, 2020, near the comet's
closest approach to planet Earth.
Photographs of
C/2020 F3
(NEOWISE) often did show the comet's broad dust tail and fainter but
separate bluish ion tail extending
farther than the eye could follow.
Skygazers around the world were
delighted
to witness Comet NEOWISE,
surprise visitor from the outer Solar System.
Notable Comet NEOWISE Images 2020: July
31
30,
29,
28,
27,
26,
25,
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
Publications with keywords: comet
Publications with words: comet
See also:
- APOD: 2025 February 5 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill
- APOD: 2025 February 2 Á Comet G3 ATLAS Disintegrates
- APOD: 2025 January 28 Á Comet G3 ATLAS over Uruguay
- APOD: 2025 January 26 Á The Many Tails of Comet G3 ATLAS
- Comet G3 ATLAS: a Tail and a Telescope
- APOD: 2025 January 21 Á Comet ATLAS over Brasilia
- APOD: 2025 January 20 Á Comet ATLAS Rounds the Sun