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Comet Neowise and constellations, July 2020
Comet Neowise (C/2020 F3) under the Plough (or Big Dipper), part of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, is at upper right. Both the dust tail (pink) and ion tail (blue) are visible. This comet was discovered on 27th March 2020 by astronomers using the NEOWISE (Wide-Field Infrared Explorer) space telescope. It became visible to the naked eye by July 2020, and is one of the brightest comets since comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. It made its closest approach to the Sun on 3rd July 2020 at a distance of 43 million kilometres. Photographed in Spain, on the 20th July 2020., by JUAN CARLOS CASADO (starryearth.com) / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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