Was going through my old laptop and found this animation of comet Kudo-Fujikawa transiting the SOHO/LASCO C2 FOV! The images are from January 2003. Enjoy! ☄️
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Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is entering the STEREO/SECCHI HI1-A camera's FOV! So far, only low-quality data is available. ☄️
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Cute! 😍 Yesterday a small Kreutz-group comet discovered in CCOR-1 was found to be "double" when it entered the SOHO/LASCO C2 FOV! Close sungrazer fragments are personally my favorite! ☄️☄️
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About 37 years ago, the final moments of #comet C/1988 Q1 were captured by the Solar Maximum Mission. The below animation contains the only images of this sungrazer, which may have reached negative magnitudes prior to disintegrating! Image credit: The HAO/SMM C/P project team & #NASA
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Yesterday a fragment of Kracht-II group comet P/2002 R5 (SOHO) was reobserved! This periodic comet likely split in 2002 and was recovered as two fragments in 2008, then as four in 2014 and 2019! It was recovered in public data from the CCOR-1 telescope, but was also visible in LASCO. ☄️
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Today SOHO/LASCO C3 caught this cool image of a bunch of dust passing infront of the camera. It's likely the result of debris released by the spacecraft's insulation layers from a tiny micrometeorite impact. ☄️

Nine years ago this beautiful Kreutz-group sungrazer (SOHO-3109) was plunging towards its demise! Likely reaching mag 0 at its brightest, it is one of the brightest SOHO-discovered comets ever observed! ☄️ #CometWatch

It seems that a small cloud of particles passed infront of the SOHO/LASCO telescopes yesterday, leading to these pretty images! The cause was most likely debris flaking off the spacecraft's insulation layers, possibly from a small micrometeorite impact. This is actually not uncommon! ☄️

In addition to C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), a tiny Kreutz-group sungrazer also briefly made an appearance in SOHO/LASCO C3! Unfortunately, the small sungrazer rapidly fell apart. Both comets are (were) completely unrelated. ☄️

An updated animation of C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) transiting the SOHO/LASCO C3 FOV! ☄️

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently entering the SOHO/LASCO C3 FOV, looking very bright! ☄️

Was scrolling through DECaLS images and came across this rare polar-ring galaxy! This one, designated 2MASX J13594168+2500460, is also an active galaxy. 😍

It's so cool that already-processed real time DSCOVR/EPIC images are accessible online! Below is an animation I put together showing the shadow of the April 8th (2024) solar eclipse! 😃 Data can be found here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Oued Chebeika 002 is the first CI chondrite "find"! Until now, all CIs have been "falls". This is interesting as the porous nature of CIs implies rapid desctruction through weathering. CIs are interesting due to their chemical primitivity, plus are analogous to asteroid Ryugu! ☄️