Astonishing images of the comet have been pasted across the web as NEOWISE becomes visible to the naked eye. One image, taken by Jeremy Perez, shows the comet in the distance behind the Merriam Crater east of Flagstaff, Arizona.
Mr Perez told Space Weather: “On any given morning, this old cinder cone is perfect.
“Catching it sharing the horizon with this graceful comet gets kind of goosebumpy for me.”
Another image was snapped by Laura Kranich from Bühl, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, which shows the comet streaking through the sky over castle.
Ms Kranich said: “Together with the 1200 year-old castle on the mountain it was just a breathtaking spectacle.
“About 1° of the comet’s tail could be seen with the naked eye, despite being embedded in the brightly-glowing noctilucent clouds.”
This year has seen two comets making their way through the solar system, only to disintegrate as they approached the Sun.
Comet ATLAS and Comet SWAN made headlines this year as astronomers spotted the bright space rocks making their way towards the Sun.
Researchers had been hoping to analyse how the comets acted as they approached the Sun, and were hoping the comets would become visible to the naked eye.
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“Funded by NASA’s Planetary Science Division, NEOWISE harvests measurements of asteroids and comets from the WISE images and provides a rich archive for searching WISE data for solar system objects.
“During its primary mission, NEOWISE delivered infrared detections of more than 158,000 minor planets to the scientific community, including more than 34,000 new discoveries.
“NEOWISE data have been used to set limits on the numbers, orbits, sizes, and probable compositions of asteroids throughout our solar system, and enabled the discovery of the first known Earth Trojan asteroid.”