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Comet Neowise in the Hawaiian Skies

Comet watchers have enjoying the newly-discovered NEOWISE comet since it was first spotted in March 2020. … WISE was an infrared survey mission, but in 2013 it was re-christened as NEOWISE, which stands for Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. NEOWISE was given a new job: detecting asteroids and comets.

 

Really out-of-this world photos of the comet, courtesy of Paul Locklin. The photographer was Sunny Takeishi.

 

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