Comet NEOWISE Over Gemini North

Comet NEOWISE — technically known as C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) — is visible in this spectacular image of the pre-dawn sky to the right (East) of the Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, one of the pair of telescopes of the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF NOIRLab. The image was taken Sunday 12 July 2020.

Credit:

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. Chu

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Id:iotw2029b
Type:Photographic
Release date:July 16, 2020, 8:56 a.m.
Size:6016 x 3384 px

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