NEOWISE

English

Alternative forms

Neowise, NeoWISE, 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.

Proper noun

NEOWISE

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.

Synonyms

Comet NEOWISE / Comet Neowise / Comet NeoWISE / Comet NeoWise

Hypernyms

comet (type)
Solar System (location)

Coordinate terms

McNaught (“C/2006 P1”) (Great Comet of 2007) (Southern Hemisphere)
Hale-Bopp (“C/1995 O1”) (Great Comet of 1997)
Hyakutake (“C/1996 B2”) (Great Comet of 1996)
West (“C/1975 V1 or C 1976 VI or C 1975n”) (Great Comet of 1976)
Kohoutek (“C/1973 E1 or C 1973 XII or C 1973f”)
Halley (“1/P Halley”) (Halley's Comet/Comet Halley)