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HELLO & GOODBYE to NEOWISE COMET

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Spectacular Summer Celestial Event 2020 Source:  NASA Comet Neowise Awesome Comet Neowise has proved to be a spectacular summer light show for the planet Earth.  Its brilliant displays of light at dawn and dusk have delighted stargazers in Northern and Southern skies.  This brilliant display of light won't be visible to Earth, according to experts, for another 6,800 years.  It is the Comet Sensation of the centuries. It will start to fade away from view by August 2020 for us here on Earth.  So, there are a few weeks left to take in a spectacular view.  NASA's Perspective NASA says the last icy space wandering comet to put on such a light show was Hale-Bopp, back in 1997.  Neowise has been so bright that it has provided astronomers with much more and greatly improved data than most comets generally do.  Through global, giant telescopes, astronomers are pulling in key details about Neowise's composition and structure.  The comet is j...

2020's COMET SENSATION

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Comet SWAN Source:  Google News Cosmic Snowball Comet SWAN is a cosmic sensation.  Forbes magazine calls it The Comet of the Year.  And, it should be visible in the Northern Hemisphere this week.  Comets aren't rare in our skies, but this one is.  The reason:  it is so exceptionally bright and beautiful to view. It put on some significant light shows in the Southern Hemisphere. Comet Danger Zone Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gas, rock and dust that orbit the Sun. SWAN is expected to be visible in pre-dawn, twilight hours in the Northern Hemisphere this week.  However, it is starting to stray into what's called the "danger zone" for comets as they get closer to the Sun.  And that is the zone where comets are famous for precipitously dimming out. Nonetheless, you might want to keep "your eyes to the skies". I just published "Search for Life in Space" on Amazon and Kindle. To take a look, go to  ASIN: B088PX6HFD ... ...