WATCH COMET NEOWISE ROTATE

 Hey Space Placers!

Check out how Comet NEOWISE rotated and spewed material out into space.

A sequence of eight images reveals the rotation of Comet NEOWISE using data from the international Gemini Observatory’s Gemini North telescope on Hawai‘i’s Maunakea. The images were obtained on 1 August 2020 using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph over a period of 1.5 hours. In this sequence, the set of eight images are looped nine times.

Credit:

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Drahus/P. Guzik/J. Pollard

WILD!

Sky Guy in VA