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SOHO-5000, the 5,000th comet discovered with SOHO 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 (LASCO). Image credit: NASA / ESA / SOHO.

SOHO Observatory Discovers Its 5,000th Comet

Mar 29, 2024 by News Staff

On March 25, 2024, Hanjie Tan, an astronomy Ph.D. student in Prague, Czech Republic, spotted a comet in an image from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric...