SOHO keeps on doing the business
It’s watching the Sun and finding comets. Lots of comets.
SOHO – the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory – doesn’t have quite the profile of the likes of Hubble and Spitzer, bu...
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Flare for destruction
The sun threw a two-week tantrum in 2003.
SOHO (ESA & NASAHere we see the disturbing effect of one of the most powerful solar storms ever recorded.Over two wee...
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Watch a comet's death dive into the sun
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has captured a bright Kreutz sungrazer being vaporised as ...
Believed to be fragments of a large comet that broke up several centuries ago, Kreutz sungrazers are characterised by...
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Observatory captures huge solar eruption
A stream of hot plasma jets into space along magnetic field lines.
Hot gas bursts upwards from the sun along lines of the magnetic field.SOHO (ESA & NASA)The Solar and Heliospheric Obs...