Tag Archive for 'Sungrazer'

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...

The Chicxulub asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which is among the worst-case scenarios for the lethality of the impact by the production of climate-changing gases. Image credit: Chase Stone.

Novel Theory Explains Possible Origin of Dinosaur-Killing Chicxulub Impactor

Feb 16, 2021 by News Staff

At the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, a 10-km impactor crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what...

SOHO-4000 is seen here in an image from the SOHO alongside its 3,999th comet discovery. The two comets are relatively close at approximately 1 million miles apart, suggesting that they could have been connected together as recently as a few years ago. Image credit: ESA / NASA / SOHO / Karl Battams.

SOHO Spacecraft Discovers Its 4,000th Comet

Jun 17, 2020 by News Staff

The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) detected its 4,000th comet on June 15, 2020. SOHO-4000 is seen here in an image from the SOHO alongside...

When Comet 96P/Machholz appeared in SOHO’s view in 2012, astronomers discovered two tiny comet fragments some distance ahead of the main body, signaling the comet was actively changing. This time around they have detected a third fragment -- another breadcrumb in the trail that indicates 96P/Machholz is still evolving. Image credit: ESA / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / SOHO / Steele Hill.

ESA and NASA Solar Observatories Snap Sungrazing Comet

Nov 9, 2017 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and NASA’s Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) have captured amazing photos of...

A new comet was discovered sling-shotting around the Sun, as seen in this image from February 20, 2015, by the SOHO observatory; the Sun is blocked in this image, called a coronagraph, so that the dim light of its atmosphere, or corona, is visible. Image credit: ESA / NASA / SOHO / Hill.

SOHO Observatory Discovers Unusual Sungrazing Comet

Feb 25, 2015 by News Staff

An unusual sungrazer skimmed past the Sun in February, as captured by ESA/NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). A new comet was discovered...