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Credit & Copyright: Tom Masterson
Explanation:
If you can see the stars of
the Big Dipper, you can find
comet NEOWISE in your evening sky tonight.
After sunset look for the naked-eye comet
below the bowl of the famous celestial kitchen utensil of the north
and above your northwestern horizon.
You're looking for a fuzzy 'star' with a tail, though probably not so
long a tail as in this
clear
sky snapshot taken from
Los Padres National Forest in California on the
evening of July 16.
Recent photographs of C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
often show this comet's broad dust tail and fainter but separate
ion tail extending
farther than the eye can follow.
Skygazers around the world have been
delighted to find
NEOWISE,
surprise visitor from the outer Solar System.
Comet NEOWISE Images:
July
17
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16
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15
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14
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13
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12
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11
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10 & earlier
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NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
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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: 2024 June 4 Á Comet Pons Brooks Develops Opposing Tails
- APOD: 2024 April 17 Á Total Eclipse and Comets
- APOD: 2024 April 8 Á The Changing Ion Tail of Comet Pons Brooks
- Comet Pons-Brooks at Night
- APOD: 2024 March 18 Á Comet Pons Brooks Swirling Coma
- Comet 12P/Pons Brooks in Northern Spring
- Structure in the Tail of Comet 12P/Pons Brooks