The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory, is a project between ESA and NASA to study the Sun from its deep core to the outer corona and the solar wind.
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2 Dec 2024
Today marks 29 years since the launch of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on December 2, 1995 and the journey continues!
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15 Oct 2024
The views you get when you're closer to the Sun! 😎
Here's @MissionSoho looking at the now famous Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS), the second brightest comet the mission has ever seen 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=OTrvT5oz…
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10 Oct 2024
🎶How does it keep getting better?🎵
🌞☄️@MissionSoho keeps delivering, with epic shots of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) as the Sun rages on in the background
📹ESA/NASA SOHO (coronagraph) & NASA SDO (Sun)
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9 Oct 2024
Comet C/2023 A3’s brightness is ‘off the charts’ today, partially saturating @MissionSoho’s detectors! 😎
✨Those sparkles in the image are solar energetic particles, as the Sun is still bursting with activity
📷ESA/NASA SOHO
ALT Coronagraph image with the Sun (blocked out) in the centre, and Comet C/2023 A3 appearing as a bright white streak on the right
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8 Oct 2024
Aaaand.. Action! ☀️
In the last 24 hours, the Sun sent out two X-class solar flares and @MissionSoho witnessed the two associated coronal mass ejections – those big white “puffs” seen here.
And that big white streak on the right? That’s Comet A3 entering the scene ☄️
🎥ESA/NASA SOHO
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SOHO_Mission retweeted
7 Oct 2024
☄️Comet alert!
For the next few days, @MissionSoho will be watching Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), expected to be one of the brightest comets it's ever seen. Teaser first image below, check the right edge!
📷ESA/NASA SOHO (☀️centre, Mercury on the left)
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25 Mar 2024
Además de investigar cómo funciona el Sol, @MissionSoho
es el descubridor de cometas más prolífico de la historia de la astronomía ☄️
Ha seguido el destino de miles de estos minimundos helados en sus ardientes encuentros con el Sol. 👇
22 Mar 2024
In addition to investigating how the Sun works, @MissionSoho is the most prolific discoverer of comets in astronomical history ☄️
It has tracked the destinies of thousands of these icy mini-worlds as they endured fiery encounters with the Sun.
Here's SOHO's 4000th comet. Its 5000th is just around the corner...
📽️ ESA/NASA/SOHO/K. Battams
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27 Mar 2024
It's official – @MissionSoho has hit 5000 comets! ☄️
Spotted on 25 March by citizen scientist and seasoned comet hunter Hanjie Tan, this rare 'Marsden group' comet is extremely small and faint.
See the comet next to the Sun 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
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27 Mar 2024
NRL's Sungrazer Project reached a remarkable milestone - the discovery of its 5,000th comet! This is a remarkable discovery for the joint @esa - @NASA @MissionSoho!
Read more at: nrl.navy.mil/.../nrls-sungra…
youtube.com/watch?v=K8yUa8_E…
Video credit: NASA/Lacey Young
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27 Mar 2024
Avvistata il 25 marzo da Hanjie Tan, 'citizen scientist' ed esperto cacciatore di comete, questa rara cometa del "gruppo Marsden" è estremamente piccola e debole. Nell'animazione video, la troviamo tra le due linee verticali nel riquadro in altro a sinistra.
@MissionSoho
27 Mar 2024
It's official – @MissionSoho has hit 5000 comets! ☄️
Spotted on 25 March by citizen scientist and seasoned comet hunter Hanjie Tan, this rare 'Marsden group' comet is extremely small and faint.
See the comet next to the Sun 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
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SOHO_Mission retweeted
27 Mar 2024
La missione @MissionSoho è stata progettata per l'osservazione del Sole 🌞.
L’abilità del telescopio come 'cacciatore di comete' ☄️ è un successo inaspettato.
Rivediamo con @esascience le comete 4.000, 3.000, 1.500 e 750 di SOHO. ⬇️
27 Mar 2024
During its three decades in space, SOHO has become the most prolific discoverer of comets in astronomical history. Designed to observe the Sun, the telescope’s prowess as a comet-hunter is an unexpected success.
(Pictured: SOHO's 4000th, 3000th, 1500th and 750th comets)
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27 Mar 2024
🌞 🌚 🌎 The ESA/NASA SOHO mission observed its 5000th comet ☄️ - found by a member of the public through the @SungrazerComets project! The instrument used was LASCO, which creates an artificial eclipse in space! Dr. Karl Battams leads the project. 🥳 👏 go.nasa.gov/4cwGWmu
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27 Mar 2024
Learn more about the SOHO mission and the importance of this milestone:
go.nasa.gov/3vkgYlz
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27 Mar 2024
“Sungrazer has been with me my entire career, so to see it get SOHO to this milestone is beyond thrilling. I'm delighted for all the project volunteers who, over the past 20 years, have made Sungrazer so engaging, inspiring, and rich with science.”
ALT A photo of a man sitting in a chair talking to an interviewer off camera.
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27 Mar 2024
Congrats to @missionSOHO and @DoNASAScience’s Sungrazer Project participants!
27 Mar 2024
Learn more about the SOHO mission and the importance of this milestone:
go.nasa.gov/3vkgYlz
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28 Mar 2024
SOHO Discovers 5,000th Comet!
Congratulations to doctoral student Hanjie Tan for this milestone discovery and all the citizen scientists and @DoNASAScience participants for their efforts. Keep comet hunting!
soho.nascom.nasa.gov/5000com…
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2 Aug 2023
☀️☢️👩🚀🧑🚀 Phew! An international fleet of space missions proved that a widespread solar radiation burst was not dangerous for astronauts
👉 esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
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29 Jul 2023
Spectacular coronal activity recorded by SOHO/LASCO over the last two days.
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