thanks to magellan tv for sponsoring today's video the solar and heliospheric observatory also known as soho recently celebrated its NUMBER_TOKENth anniversary in space during these NUMBER_TOKEN years it has observed the solar wind watched out for dangerous coronal mass ejections and observed the atmosphere of the sun an unintended consequence of its observations around this region with the discovery of over NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN sun grazing comets most of which we had no idea existed until they came into soho's view and soho isn't the only solar observatory the stereo spacecraft and the solar dynamics observatory have all seen new comets and what's so cool about that is that they weren't designed with that in mind at all i'm alex mccolgan and you're watching astrum and in this video i wanted to look at some of the most impressive of these comets try to understand how they interact with the sun and how the sun interacts with them
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