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SOHO Spacecraft’s Milestone: 5,000th Comet Discovery

The joint ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) project has marked a significant achievement with the identification of its 5,000th comet, thanks to contributions from citizen scientists and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Sungrazer Project.

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