First sighting

NASA’S NEAREARTH OBJECT WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER, 27 MARCH 2020

Comet NEOWISE appears as a string of fuzzy red dots in this composite of several heatsensitive infrared images taken by NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared

Survey Explorer) mission on 27 March. Classified as a comet on 31 March, it was named after NEOWISE on 1 April and excitement began to build that it might reach naked-eye brightness.