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PIA18653: NEOWISE Spies Activity on Comet Catalina

NASA's NEOWISE spotted Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina), appearing to be a highly active comet one day past perihelion on July 7, 2014.

Mission:	NEOWISE
Instrument:	NEOWISE Telescope
Product Size:	1596 x 1080 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	IPAC-Caltech
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA18653.tif (5.173 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA18653.jpg (315 kB)

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Comet C/2013 UQ4 (Catalina) appeared to be a highly active comet one day past perihelion on July 7, 2014.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the NEOWISE mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, built the science instrument. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. of Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information on NEOWISE is online at http://neowise.ipac.caltech.edu.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2014-07-23