Spectacular time-lapse footage shows the Neowise comet travelling across the night sky in the Philippines.<br /><br />Astronomy enthusiast Renn Avellaneda Acomular recorded the once-in-a-lifetime video of the meteor from outside his house in Infanta, Quezon province on July 26. <br /><br />He said: "It felt pretty special to catch a glimpse of Neowise before it disappeared for thousands of years.''<br /><br />Comet Neowise - with the scientific name C/2020 F3 - was discovered on March 27 by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission, which used NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope to look for near-Earth objects including asteroids and comets. <br /><br />The comet made its closest approach to the sun (called perihelion) on July 23 and the next chance to see it will be in 7,000 years.<br /><br />The comet is one of the brightest since Hale-Bopp, which passed by the planet in 1997. <br /><br />‘Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was discovered in late March and brightened as it reached its closest approach to the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury, late last week,’ Nasa said.
