2000th Comet Spotted by SOHO

Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has been used by amateur astronomers worldwide to spot comets. Over half of all known comets have been spotted in this...

25 January 2011

By Chris Smith.

Part of the show Antimatter Storms and the Universe's Dark Ages

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A comet caught by a sun-facing observatory using a coronagraph

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CC0 - NASA

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Data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO, has been used by amateur astronomers worldwide to spot comets. Over half of all known comets have been spotted in this way, and now a student in Poland has spotted SOHO's 2000th comet!