Josie Ford
The Great Bare
With so much unpleasantness at ground level in recent months, it is hardly surprising that people around the world have sought solace in the heavens.
Particularly widespread hay was made of the recent arrival of Neowise, a comet that was first spotted in March and is now making its closest approach to the sun. C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), as the giant iceball is properly known, has a 6800-year orbit, meaning that this approach may well be the last time any of us gets to see it. We aren’t talking about any one person, obviously, but the human race…
