Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) became the brightest comet visible from the Northern Hemisphere since Hale-Bopp in 1997, discovered in March 2020 by NASA's NEOWISE infrared space telescope survey.
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Diameter (km)Nucleus diameter, approximately 5 km. Discovery Year Connections
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Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) became the brightest comet visible from the Northern Hemisphere since Hale-Bopp in 1997, discovered in March 2020 by NASA's NEOWISE infrared space telescope survey.
Comet NEOWISE (Wikipedia)
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NEOWISE is known for being the brightest comet in the northern hemisphere since Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997.
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C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope.
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