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Someone Just Found SOHO's 5,000th Comet


The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) was designed to examine the Sun, but as a side benefit, it has been the most successful comet hunter ever built. Since early in the mission, citizen scientists have been scanning through the telescope's data, searching for icy objects passing close to the Sun.

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