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2020年7月16日 The Long Tails of Comet NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek Explanation: This Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) now sweeps through our fair planet’s northern skies. Its long tails stretch across this deep skyview from Suchy Vrch, Czech Republic. Recorded on the night of July 13/14, the composite of untracked foreground and tracked an...
2020年7月15日 Comet NEOWISE over the Swiss Alps Image Credit & Copyright: Philipp Salzgeber, foto-webcam.eu; Text: Adam Block Explanation: Comet NEOWISE has been wowing photographers around much of the world during dawn and dusk, at the margins of day and night. For the most northern residents of planet Earth, however, the comet circles the North Star and ...
2020年7月14日 Comet NEOWISE over Stonehenge Image Credit & Copyright: Declan Deval Explanation: Have you ever seen a comet? Tonight — and likely the next few nights — should be a good chance. Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all ...
2020年7月13日 Comet NEOWISE Rising over the Adriatic Sea Video Credit & Copyright: Paolo Girotti Explanation: This sight was worth getting out of bed early. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) has been rising before dawn during the past week to the delight of northern sky enthusiasts awake that early. Up before sunrise, the featured photographer was able to capture ...
2020年7月11日 The Tails of Comet NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Miloslav Druckmuller (Brno University of Technology) Explanation: Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) is now sweeping through northern skies. Its developing tails stretch some six degrees across this telescopic field of view, recorded from Brno, Czech Republic before daybreak on July 10. Pushed out b...
2020年7月10日 Comet NEOWISE from the ISS Image Credit: NASA, ISS Explanation: Rounding the Sun on July 3rd and currently headed for the outer Solar System, Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) has been growing brighter in the predawn skies of planet Earth. From low Earth orbit it also rises before the Sun, captured above the approaching glow along the eastern horizon in t...
2020年7月9日 Noctilucent Clouds and Comet NEOWISE Image Credit & Copyright: Emmanuel Paoly Explanation: These silvery blue waves washing over a tree-lined horizon in the eastern French Alps are noctilucent clouds. From high in planet Earth’s mesosphere, they reflect sunlight in this predawn skyscape taken on July 8. This summer, the night-shining clo...
2020年7月7日 Comet NEOWISE over Lebanon Image Credit & Copyright: Maroun Habib (Moophz) Explanation: A comet has suddenly become visible to the unaided eye. Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, late last week. The interplanetary iceberg survived sol...