Newly-discovered stellar visitor shines in the night sky

Staff Reports// July 15, 2020

Comet NEOWISE was discovered March 27th, 2020, by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) space telescope orbiting 326 miles above the earth.

This new comet, officially known as C/2020 F3, is the brightest comet since Hale-Bopp in 1997 and is slightly brighter than Halley’s Comet when it passed by the Earth in 1996.