297K views · 8.1K reactions | Comet #neowise peacefully drifts over a mountain in Oregon before fading with the morning light. | Andrew Studer | Facebook

If you get a chance tonight, look up at the night sky to see Neowise, the brightest comet to grace the Northern Hemisphere in decades. The comet is expected to make its closest approach tonight, passing at a distance of 64 million miles. You can spot Neowise after sunset, below the Big Dipper in the northwest sky. If you don't catch Neowise this time around, you won’t get another chance—it will be approximately 6,800 years before the comet returns to the inner parts of the Milky Way. Here are so

88K views · 349 reactions | Here’s how to catch a glimpse of the spectacular comet Neowise before it disappears for thousands of years https://cbsn.ws/3h3U7xA | CBS News | Facebook

26K views · 891 reactions | Japanese observatory uses timelapse photography to show comet Neowise moving across the sky. | Reuters | Facebook