It’s a bird! It’s a plane!
Comet NEOWISE shares its name with the space telescope that discovered it. The Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer orbits the earth once every 95 minutes,15 times per day and uses infrared wave-lengths to seek out objects coming relatively close to the earth.
A comet is a small icy body that, when it passes close to the sun warms and starts to release gases, produces that characteristic tail.
Over the next month, Comet NEOWISE will move up in the sky before eventually disappearing into its orbit in August.
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