SOHO's unique view of a comet that fell to pieces

The break-up of Comet LINEAR gave a small-scale impression of the disintegration, many centuries ago, of a far larger comet into an enormous swarm of mini- ...

The SWAN song of comet LINEAR - SOHO Hotshots

SOHO's unique view of a comet that fell to pieces (ESA Release) · In coming apart, Comet LINEAR exposes many of its deepest secrets (NASA Release) · A dying ...

“Doomed” Comet SOHO-5008 met its demise soon after this ... - Reddit

As the person that named that comet*, sadly there aren't any other choices. It was the 5,008th comet discovered by the SOHO spacecraft.

SOHO's private view of a sunbathing comet - ESA

You could see it easily with your unaided eye (but don't try!) if only Comet Machholz 1 were not so very close to the Sun. This unusual comet, reputed to ...

In SOHO's pictures, watch a comet passing near the Sun - SpaceNews

Between now and Saturday, 20 April, you can follow via the Internet the progress of the new-found Comet SOHO-422. Usually, comets seen by ...

A Comet Breaking-Up - Space Scoop

For the first time, astronomers captured images of a strange rocky comet, breaking apart as it went closer to the Sun. Meet 323P/SOHO – a comet ...

Bright comet is really NEAT - SpaceNews

SOHO's unique view of a comet that fell to pieces http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/ESAPBTYOUMC_FeatureWeek_0.html * SOHO analyses a kamikaze ...

Rare Glimpse of “Doomed” SOHO Comet During Solar Eclipse

Comet SOHO-5008 was discovered by a citizen scientist and captured during a solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, before it disintegrated near the Sun.

SOHO's thousands of doomed comets | Science Wire - EarthSky

SOHO - Solar and Heliospheric Observatory - is the greatest comet-discoverer of all time. It has found 3000 comets ... but our sun has ...

SOHO Solar Observatory Greatest Comet Hunter of All Time

"SOHO has a view of about 12 and a half million miles beyond the sun," said Joe Gurman, the mission scientist for SOHO at NASA's Goddard Space ...

A comet got really close to the Sun and completely freaked out - Syfy

The comet 323P/SOHO was discovered in 1999, and has a fire-and-ice orbit: On its profoundly elliptical 4-year orbit around the Sun, it goes out nearly to the ...

My SOHO and STEREO comets - Sky Hunt - WordPress.com

This was a small Kreutz-group comet I first noticed in SOHO/LASCO C3 images of 2016-11-17, following far behind in the trail of a much brighter ...

Unusual triple comet flies past the Sun - Watchers.news

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted an unusual object identified as a triple comet flying past the Sun in early August.

The case of the Sun-diving asteroid that thinks it's a comet - Syfy

So right away this was an unusual object. With a period of almost exactly four years, it was spotted four more times in SOHO data (in 2003, 2007 ...

Cambridge Conference Correspondence - Looking for Comets ...

(5) SOHO'S UNIQUE VIEW OF A COMET THAT FELL TO PIECES ESA Science News, 18 ... (5) SOHO'S UNIQUE VIEW OF A COMET THAT FELL TO PIECES From ESA Science ...

SOHO comets: 20 years and 3000 objects later - Journals

Since that time, and by virtue of the unique views offered by the on-board Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instruments, more than ...

Planets and Comets Can't Hide from SOHO's Eye - Sky & Telescope

A number of amateur astronomers routinely monitor SOHO images to find new comets in the Sun's vicinity that are otherwise invisible in daylight ...

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS photobombs SOHO spacecraft during ...

This week, a thick, bright line entered from the right side of SOHO's imagery and paraded across the field of view, moving toward the top of the ...

Get Ready for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — The Best Is Yet to Come!

Earth crosses the comet's orbital plane on Oct. 14th, when we'll view its orbit edge-on. This special perspective is expected to create a ...

The dazzling Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is emerging in the night sky

Back in January of 2007, the public was captivated when SOHO captured Comet McNaught sweeping closely past the sun. Since it was launched in ...