If you haven’t gotten out to see Comet NEOWISE yet, I encourage everyone to try and do so this weekend. It was closest to Earth on July 23rd and is now speeding off into the black.
You will need binoculars and a dark sky. To view the comet, look to the northwest about an hour after sunset (about 9:30 local time). Just below and west of the Big Dipper, you’ll be able to see the comet, which appears as a fuzzy light with the naked eye.
Bonus Fun Fact: C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or, more commonly referred to as Comet NEOWISE, is named that because it was discovered by NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission. How is that for an epic acronym? The NEOWISE project discovered the comet on March 27, 2020.
Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: Comet NEOWISE isn’t expected to return to the inner solar system for another 6,800 years.
See more fun things about Comet NEOWISE on NASA’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-to-see-comet-neowise
Jason E. Andersen 
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