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Credit & Copyright: Bill Peters
Explanation:
After local midnight on July 14 comet NEOWISE was
still above the horizon
for Goldenrod, Alberta, Canada, just north of Calgary, planet Earth.
In this snapshot it makes for an awesome night with dancing
displays of the northern lights.
The long-tailed comet
and auroral displays are beautiful apparitions
in the north these
days.
Both show the influence of spaceweather and the wind
from
the Sun.
Skygazers have
widely
welcomed
the visitor from the Oort cloud, though
C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
is in an orbit that is now taking it out of the inner Solar System.
Comet NEOWISE Images:
July
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 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:
- Vega and Comet 12P Pons-Brooks
- APOD: 2023 November 26 Á A Dust Jet from the Surface of Comet 67P
- Galaxies and a Comet
- APOD: 2023 September 11 Á Beautiful Comet Nishimura
- APOD: 2023 September 9 Á Comet Nishimura Grows
- APOD: 2023 September 3 Á Comet Schwassmann Wachmann 3 Fragments
- APOD: 2023 August 21 Á Introducing Comet Nishimura