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NEOWISE: A Solar System Safari |
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Comet Siding Spring Struts its Stuff | |||||||||
NEOWISE can see comets too. Not all of them are as easy to spot as this beauty, called Siding Spring. The snowball-like mass of ice and dust spent billions of years orbiting in the deep freeze of the Oort Cloud, a spherical cloud of comets surrounding our solar system. › Larger image › Read more |
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| Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology |
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