HOTSHOT
New Comet Discovered by SOHO (13 May 2020)
Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo from Australia spotted this icy visitor from the outer Solar System while inspecting images that had been posted online from the Solar Wind ANisotropies (SWAN) instrument aboard SOHO...
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Solar Pick
WHY SOHO SPOTS SO MANY COMETS (19 MAY 2020)
SOHO was not designed to find comets but data from this space-based solar observatory has led to the discovery of well over half of all known comets, upwards of 3,950 new comets...
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SPOTLIGHT
JHelioviewer: A new way of looking at the Sun
JHelioviewer is new visualization software that enables everybody, anywhere to explore the Sun...
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| Density: 4.54 p/cm3 | |
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