For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving…
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The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA designed to study the Sun. Launched in December 1995, SOHO operates from a vantage point approximately 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, in an orbit around the first Lagrangian point (L1), which allows for continuous observation of the Sun. The mission’s primary goals include investigating the solar atmosphere, monitoring solar activity, and examining the solar wind and its impact on space weather. SOHO is equipped with an array of instruments that provide valuable data on the Sun’s interior, its outer atmosphere, and the larger heliosphere. The observatory has significantly advanced our understanding of phenomena like solar flares and coronal mass ejections, contributing to our ability to forecast space weather events that can affect satellite operations and communications on Earth.
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO…
A surprise appearance of a new comet made the April 8th total solar eclipse all…
Comet SOHO-5008 was discovered by a citizen scientist and captured during a solar eclipse on…
SOHO, intended for solar observation, has become a prolific comet finder, with the 5,000th comet…
The SOHO observatory has challenged previous theories about Phaethon, a ‘rock comet’ linked to the…
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in…
Solar flares, ranked from A to X, can disrupt radio, satellites, and power systems. Monitoring…
Scientists witnessed a rare solar event combining all known eruption types, helping link their origins…
NASA’s STEREO-A and ESA/NASA’s SOHO spacecraft detected a coronal mass ejection, or CME, leaving the…
Parker Solar Probe Captured Its First Sungrazing Comet, SOHO-4063 When scientists downlinked data from Parker…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory launched on December 2, 1995. A joint mission between the…
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Large Angle Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument identified the 4000th comet…
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA,…
Data from ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has captured…
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks…
The European Space Agency and NASA mission SOHO — short for Solar and Heliospheric Observatory…