Published 19:22 IST, July 22nd 2020
Neowise July 22 Location: Know when and where to find the dazzling comet tonight
The space-born visitor Comet Neowise is dazzling the skies on Earth this month. Here is where one can spot this fast-moving ball of ice tonight.
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Outer space visitor Comet NEOWISE was spotted for first time by NASA in March 2020 with help of its Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) telescope. Although to us NEOWISE is only four months old, this icy outer space comet is actually 4.6 billion years old. NASA has confirmed that Comet NEOWISE is older than Earth itself and as old as our Solar System. Alongside Comet NEOWISE NASA’s telescope h discovered two or comets, Comet ATLAS and Comet SWAN. However, only NEOWISE stood test of time when it me its slingshot around our fiery star, Sun and still maintained its trajectory, while or two grually fizzled out of existence.
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NEOWISE July 22 location: How to find NEOWISE tonight?
Space Enthusiasts marvelled at Comet Hale-Bopp which graced Earth’s sky in 1997. Comet Hale-Bopp h put on a grand show and remained visible for a year and a half since its first appearance. Nearly 23 years later, Comet NEOWISE is putting on a spectacular show for sky watchers in Earth’s Norrn Hemisphere. NASA reports claim that Comet NEOWISE will likely look like a fuzzy star with a bit of a tail.
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NASA has also revealed that on July 22 and 23, Comet NEOWISE will make its closest approach around Earth’s orbit. It will only be 64 million miles or 103 million kilometres from earth’s orbit. Hence stargazers can get closest and clearest views of this icy comet on two days. Reports of a space portal, claim that during evening time Comet NEOWISE will appear in Northwestern skies. Apart from this, it will also be visible 45 to 60 minutes before sunrise towards norast of sky.
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Comet NEOWISE Time and location
On July 22 Comet NEOWISE will appear under Big Dipper. Big Dipper is not a constellation in itself, y are a group of stars that appears as a part of Ursa Major constellation. However, all stargazers need to know that stellar show, that Comet NEOWISE is currently putting on is going to be short-lived.
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Every evening comet is climbing higher in sky until eventually, it will fe from view entirely and venture into deep space. next time Comet NEOWISE will be spotted in Earth’s sky will be in year 8,820CE. last time it was visible, Stone Henge one of most iconic prehistoric monuments in world was only 500 years old, while today it is over 5,000 years old. Also last time NEOWISE h appeared, pyramids weren’t built yet.
19:22 IST, July 22nd 2020