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Loading contentA long-period comet discovered in 2020 that became a bright naked-eye object in the Northern Hemisphere sky.
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How Comet NEOWISE connects across Asteria Star — scientific, cultural, and astrological links are kept separate.
The Sun and the bodies gravitationally bound to it.
Comets on enormous orbits reaching deep into the outer Solar System, arriving from the Oort cloud after millions of years — the source of most great comets.
A hypothesised spherical cloud of trillions of icy bodies at the outermost edge of the Sun's gravitational influence — the reservoir from which long-period and Halley-type comets are nudged inward.
A periodic comet orbited and landed on by ESA's Rosetta mission.
Periodic comet — 19P/Borrelly.
A long-period comet that was widely visible to the naked eye in 1997.
A comet that passed very close to Earth in 1996.
A comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.
A periodic comet (109P/Swift–Tuttle) that is the parent body of the Perseid meteor shower.
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Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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