(Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images) A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above a camping site at the Negev desert near the city of Mitzpe Ramon on Augduring the Perseids meteor shower, which occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by the comet Swift-Tuttle.(Photo by David Becker / AFP) (Photo by DAVID BECKER/AFP via Getty Images) – The Comet C/2020 F3 was discovered March 27, 2020, by NEOWISE, the Near Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a space telescope launched by NASA in 2009. The Comet NEOWISE or C/2020 F3, with its two tails visible, is seen in the sky above Goldfield, Nevada on July 18, 2020.After a year of circling and taking pictures, NEAR will touch down on asteroid Eros February 12, 2001, to capture surface details, which will be the first time any craft has tried to land on a tumbling space rock. A mosaic image of asteroid Eros at it’s north pole, taken by the robotic NEAR Shoemaker space probe Februimmediately after the spacecraft’s insertion into orbit.The annual display, known as the Perseid shower because the meteors appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus in the northeastern sky, is a result of Earth’s orbit passing through debris from the comet Swift-Tuttle. BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK, UT – AUGUST 12: A Perseid meteor streaks across the sky above Inspiration Point early on Augin Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah.(Photo by Bill Ingalls/ NASA via Getty Images) SPRUCE KNOB, WV – AUGUST 11: In this 30 second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug.
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