NEOWISE

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proper noun

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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Meanings

NEOWISE1

proper noun

alternative Neowise · alternative NeoWISE · alternative NeoWise

  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.

    Synonyms: Comet NEOWISE, Comet Neowise, Comet NeoWISE, Comet NeoWise

Neowise2

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

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA 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.

Origin

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.

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NEOWISE. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NEOWISE

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“NEOWISE.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NEOWISE. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “NEOWISE,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/NEOWISE.

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