Nasa’s Soho mission, which is tasked with observing the Sun, has captured its 5000th comet as it dives around the star in our Solar System.
Soho, the Solar & Heliospheric Observatory was launched on December 2, 1995 with a package of 12 instruments onboard. Nasa was responsible for the launch and is now responsible for mission operations.
Being called the SOHO-5000, it is a small comet belonging to the so-called Marsden group. This comet is part of the larger comet 96P/Machholz.
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