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Indoor astronomers around the world love to hunt comets by perusing data from the space-based SOHO observatory. SOHO is tasked to watch the Sun, but comets fly across the field of view.
So far, 1,185 comets have been detected this way. Today, officials announced that the 1,000th sungrazer had been spotted. These objects swing very close to the Sun, then if they’re not torn apart, they wing back out to the outer solar system and return later, sometimes decades or centuries later, for another go.
No. 1,000 was spotted by Polish amateur comet hunter Arkadiusz Kubczak. See it here.
(See also story about the 1,000th SOHO comet overall, found last year.
