On the 27th March 2020 (whilst the world was distracted with other things), a new comet was quietly discovered by the California Institute of Technology.

The comet, with a catchy name of “C/2020 F3 NEOWISE” was spotted using NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope (NEOWISE), which has been scouring the depths of space in search of asteroids and comets that are potentially dangerously close to Earth…

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