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SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA. SOHO’s science ranges from the Sun’s hot interior, through its visible surface and stormy atmosphere, and out to distant regions where the wind from the Sun battles with a breeze of atoms coming from among the stars. Credit: ESA, intended for solar observation, has become a prolific comet finder, with the 5,000th comet discovery marking a significant milestone and showcasing the contribution of volunteer comet hunters.
The 5,000th comet discovered with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory spacecraft is noted by a small white box in the upper left portion of this image. A zoomed-in inset shows the comet as a faint dot between the white vertical lines. The image was taken on March 25, 2024, by SOHO’s Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph , which uses a disk to block the bright Sun and reveal faint features around it.
Most of the 5,000 comets discovered using SOHO have been found with the help of an international cadre of volunteer comet hunters – many with no formal scientific training – participating in the Sungrazer Project. The vast number of comets discovered using SOHO has allowed scientists to learn more about sungrazing comets and groups of comets that orbit the Sun. Comets discovered by the Sungrazer Project have also helped scientists learn more about the Sun, by watching the comets plunge through our star’s atmosphere like small solar probes.
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