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Stationed 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth, SOHO constantly watches the Sun, returning spectacular pictures and data of the storms that rage across its surface. SOHO's studies range from the Sun's hot interior, through its visible surface and stormy atmosphere, and out to distant regions where solar wind battles with a breeze of atoms coming from among the stars. The SOHO mission is a joint ESA/NASA project.

  • Launch date: December 1995
  • Status: Operational
  • Orbit: Slow orbit around Lagrange point L1
  • Observes: The Sun's nature and behaviour
SOHO

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Aurora near Frankfurt, Germany, May 2024
Space Safety

The May 2024 solar storm: your questions answered

17/05/2024 22592 views 60 likes
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Science & Exploration

Giant solar eruption felt on Earth, Moon and Mars

02/08/2023 52319 views 250 likes
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Phaethon’s journey at perihelion
Science & Exploration

SOHO chases asteroid's tail

25/04/2023 8844 views 111 likes
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SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging
Science & Exploration

SOHO’s pioneering 25 years in orbit

02/12/2020 14160 views 92 likes
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Spotting a comet in the all-sky maps from SOHO's instrument SWAN
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The discovery of Comet SWAN by solar-watcher SOHO

13/05/2020 10035 views 87 likes
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    SOHO in numbers

    02/12/2020 2871 views 46 likes
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    Decades of the Sun, as seen by SOHO

    02/12/2020 14000 views 168 likes
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  • Science & Exploration

    SOHO: 25 years of solar imaging

    02/12/2020 5579 views 95 likes
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