C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) facts for kids

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The comet seen in France in July 2020
Discovery date	March 27, 2020

C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), or Comet NEOWISE, is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers using the NEOWISE space telescope.

At that time it was a 10th magnitude comet, located 2 AU (300 million km; 190 million mi) away from the Sun and 1.7 AU (250 million km; 160 million mi) away from Earth.

The comet is notable for being one of the brightest visible to observers in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.

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Discovery image - the comet appears as three fuzzy red dots in this composite of three infrared images taken by NEOWISE on March 27, 2020
July 7, 2020, Golden Gate Bridge, California, United States
Inverted telescope image photographed on July 9, 2020
July 14, 2020 near the San Francisco Peaks in the Flagstaff dark sky preserve
July 17, 2020, 18:59 UTC over Asterousia, Crete, as it entered into Ursa Major
Midnight, July 18, 2020 - in a time-lapse taken from the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, U.S. the view was rotating because the lens was on a tracking mount
Above Chimney Rock on July 18, 2020
July 19, 2020 in Villanovaforru (Sardinia, Italy)
July 20, 2020
July 21, 2020 in Quebec, Canada
Joshua Tree National Park, a dark-sky preserve, on July 21, 2020
Hubble image taken on August 8, 2020

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