The Jets of Comet NEOWISE
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the closest images yet of the sky’s latest visitor to make the headlines, comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, after it passed by the Sun. The two images in this video were take three hours apart on 8 August 2020 and features the comet’s prominent jets that are emerging from the nucleus.
Credit:NASA, ESA, Q. Zhang (California Institute of Technology), A. Pagan (STScI), and M. Kornmesser
About the Video
| Id: | heic2015a |
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| Release date: | 21 August 2020, 19:00 |
| Related releases: | heic2015 |
| Duration: | 06 s |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps |
About the Object
| Name: | NEOWISE |
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| Type: | Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Comet |
| Category: | Solar System |
