SOHO SPOTS 2000TH COMET

SOHO is one of my favourite websites to see the sun's Corona and also see some sun grazing comets. And now it has discovered it's 2000th comet!!! Hope to someday discover one of my own comets too!!!

Aadil.

SOHO spots 2,000th comet

Courtesy: www.physorg.com

As people on Earth celebrate the holidays and prepare to ring in the New Year, an ESA/NASA spacecraft has quietly reached its own milestone: on December 26, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) discovered its 2000th comet.

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