Want to see a real live comet?

Comet Neowise will not pass this way again for 7,000 years

Posted 7/14/20

Look up in the night sky tonight.

No ... that's not Superman.

It's Comet Neowise.

Tonight – and the next few nights – should be a good chance to see it.

Go outside just at sunset …

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Want to see a real live comet?

Comet Neowise will not pass this way again for 7,000 years

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Look up in the night sky tonight.
No ... that's not Superman.
It's Comet Neowise.
Tonight – and the next few nights – should be a good chance to see it.
Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. 
The lower your horizon, the better. 
Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. 
As the sun sets, the sky will darken and you will see an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. 
Yes, that's Comet Neowise, a 3-mile-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from -and returning to our outer solar system. 
The comet has surprised astronomers by surviving its closest approach to our sun, brightening dramatically and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails.
As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might take a picture.
But don't figure you'll be around when it comes back.
Astronomers estimate that will be about 7,000 years from now.
 

Comet, Neowise

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