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3 days ago · SOHO DISCOVERS 5,000TH COMET (March 27, 2024) SOHO has discovered its 5,000th comet! A citizen scientist in the Czech Republic spotted a comet in a SOHO image... more »
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft built by a European industrial consortium led by Matra Marconi Space (now Airbus Defence and Space) that was launched on a Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS launch vehicle on 2 December 1995, to study the Sun.
Dec 2, 1995 · SOHO is the longest-lived Sun-watching satellite to date. Numerous mission extensions have enabled the spacecraft to observe two 11-year solar cycles and to discover thousands of comets. SOHO is a cooperative international project between ESA and NASA.
4 days ago · The Very Latest SOHO Images. NOTICE: EIT is undergoing a routine, scheduled, CCD Bakeout between April 30, 2024 and May 15, 2024. During this time, you may view similar images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory mission. Regular size page , New 1280×1024 window, and New 1600×1200 window .
6 days ago · SOHO has just reached a new milestone: It has discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all the other discoverers of comets throughout history put together... read the story ».
5 days ago · SOHO, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project of international collaboration between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind. SOHO was launched on December 2, 1995.
Dec 2, 2011 · SOHO (SOlar Heliospheric Observatory) is a space-based observatory, viewing and investigating the Sun from its deep core, through its outer atmosphere - the corona - and the domain of the solar wind, out to a distance ten times beyond the Earth's orbit.
