English Explanatory Dictionary

NEOWISE

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.
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  1. Alternative letter-case form of NEOWISE.

Word forms

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.

Synonyms

Comet NEOWISE
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