196K views · 12K reactions | A breathtaking early morning timelapse of Comet NEOWISE rising over the Adriatic sea @astrogyres | Aurora Borealis Observatory | Facebook

21K views · 121 reactions | It won’t return for nearly 7,000 years, and comet Neowise passes closest to Earth today. It’ll now gradually fade, but you can still catch it in the skies above the North West! Here’s Owain with more ☄️☄️ | BBC Manchester | Facebook

5.5K views · 61 reactions | I could not resist capturing comet NEOWISE - even with a poor view from my backyard. I don't know when we will ever see a comet like this again. This is a 30 minute time-lapse and close-up view of the comet captured from my backyard to see how the comet moves in relation to the background stars. It was captured with a RASA 8 and CLS Filter - no calibration frames. | Chuck’s Astrophotography | Facebook

If you get a chance tonight, look up at the night sky to see Neowise, the brightest comet to grace the Northern Hemisphere in decades. The comet is expected to make its closest approach tonight, passing at a distance of 64 million miles. You can spot Neowise after sunset, below the Big Dipper in the northwest sky. If you don't catch Neowise this time around, you won’t get another chance—it will be approximately 6,800 years before the comet returns to the inner parts of the Milky Way. Here are so

145K views · 336 shares | Since December 2013, after a period of hibernation, our Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NeoWise) mission has completely scanned the skies and observed and characterized 29,375 objects, including 27,000 asteroids (gray), 788 near-Earth objects (green) and 136 comets (yellow): https://go.nasa.gov/2r58Gtq | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook