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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)

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Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) SOHO studies the sun from core to outer corona, and has inadvertently discovered over 2,000 comets due to the coronagraph it uses to block out the sun’s direct glare.

NASA / Alex Lutkus

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