#DidYouKnow... our ESA/NASA SOHO mission constantly watches the Sun, stationed 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth? ☀️ SOHO has been returning spectacular pictures and data of the storms that rage across our Sun's surface for nearly 30 years. 🔗https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SOHO | ESA - European Space Agency

The SOHO spacecraft has studied the Sun for nearly 25 years — and it has also discovered well over half of all known comets. On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist found the 4,000th never-before-seen comet in data from the Goddard-flown SOHO spacecraft, a joint mission of ESA - European Space Agency and NASA. https://go.nasa.gov/3dcAhy2 The comet is nicknamed SOHO-4000, pending its official designation from the Minor Planet Center. Like most other SOHO-discovered comets, SOHO-4000 is part of the