Watch COMET and Space Out. Use it to locate a planet, the Moon, or the Sun and track their movements across the sky. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) isnât what astronomers call a great comet. Hello Fellow Astronomers, Comet C/2012 K1 PanSTARRS is undergoing a surprise outburst with a dust tail slightly visible under averted vision. The most famous comet of all â Halleyâs comet â returns to our inner Solar System every ~76 years. NEOWISE is currently an evening sky object. Beta The Interactive Night Sky Map simulates the sky above Houston on a date of your choice. A three-mile wide comet named "NEOWISE" has lit up the skies, wowing people across the globe. This satellite is the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, later used to search for Near Earth Objects. COMET is a new television channel dedicated to sci-fi entertainment offering popular favorites, cult classics, and undiscovered gems, every day. Not a comet or UFO! Terms & Conditions The tail has a fan shape with one end being the dust tail and other the ion tail that is very narrow, but stretches over a length of the sky great than the width of a perigee Moon. After July 13, NEOWISE will drop ⦠The map also shows the phases of the Moon, and all solar and lunar eclipses. The comet can be viewed at about 10 degrees above the northeastern horizon. SpaceX rocket launch dazzles in predawn sky You may have thought the time change threw you off, but you werenât seeing things early Sunday morning Halley's comet made its most recent approach into ⦠When investigators couldn't find any other cause, they blamed the storm. The comet will be best viewed facing west-northwest after sunset. A Comet leaving Calcutta disintegrated in a thunderstorm. After its discovery, Comet NEOWISE continued to approach the Sun. Eight months later, a second Comet blew up in clear sky, 27,000 feet over the Island of Elba, off the coast of Italy. Those in the northern hemisphere will be able to view the comet for most of July, but its closest approach will be on July 23. But itâs a wonderful binocular comet that began gracing our early morning skies in ⦠A stork stands on a power lines pole as the comet C/2020 F3, known as Neowise, is seen in the sky above the village of Kreva, Belarus, early on ⦠Astronomers discovered this comet on March 27, 2020 using the NEOWISE satellite. As the minutes tick off, the comet will be getting higher, but the dawn sky will be getting increasingly brighter as well.