SOHO Mission Discovers Rare Comet

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Periodic comet P2007 R5 (SOHO) seen with SOHOs Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph camera. A yellow box has been added to the picture to highlight the tiny comet which appears as a white dot in the center. Credit: ESANASA
Periodic comet P/2007 R5 (SOHO), seen with SOHO's Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph camera. A yellow box has been added to the picture to highlight the tiny comet, which appears as a white dot in the center. Credit: ESA/NASA

The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has discovered a rare periodic comet. SOHO has already discovered more than 1,350 comets during its mission, but this is the first time one of its discoveries officially has been designated periodic.


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