The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory just hit a milestone with its 5,000th comet detection. ... Additionally, the sun's magnetic field is known to shape and push the comets' stunning tails, ...

Mystery Behind the Uncanny Strength of a 2023 Solar Storm Solved by Scientists In April 2023, Earth was hit by a surprisingly ...

An unexpectedly strong solar storm rocked our planet on April 23, 2023, sparking auroras as far south as southern Texas in ...

SOHO is an international exploratory spacecraft tasked with examining the sun. It also has identified 5,000 comets over the past 28 years, which NASA says makes it the world's most prolific comet ...

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing about 8 million miles from the sun. NASA/ESA/SOHO/LASCO/K. Battams. The video was taken by an instrument on SOHO called the LASCO (Large Angle and Spectrometric ...

The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) may have glimpsed long-sought oscillations on the Sun’s surface. The data will reveal details about the very core of our central star and ...

Wheeeeee! ☄️ ESA/NASA’s Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft spied comet C/2024 S1 ATLAS (entering from bottom right) as it darted toward the Sun.

The Sun-watching SOHO spacecraft turns 10 this Friday, Dec. 3, having survived a trio of near-death experiences and outlasted its original mission timeline by eight years.

After a solar flare, SOHO sees waves rushing across the Sun’s visible surface, like the ripples seen when a stone falls into a pond. One such event was judged to be 40 000 times more energetic ...

The SOHO mission was launched in December 1995, carrying an armada of scientific instrumentation designed to study the sun, its surface, its interior, its atmosphere, and so much more.