Neowise

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  1. 1
    A comet in Solar System. Visible to the naked eye in 2020. The first comet easily visible to the naked eye in the Northern Hemisphere in a quarter century.
  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of NEOWISE. alt-of

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comet neowise

Etymology

From being discovered in 2020 by the NEOWISE mission, a mission started in 2010 aboard the WISE space telescope (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer). From NEO (“near-Earth object”)+WISE.

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