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During a Total Solar Eclipse, a Comet is Spotted Racing Past the Sun On December 14, 2020, there was a total solar eclipse that could be seen in Chile and Argentina. Now scientists have revealed images of a tiny speck flying by the Sun as the event happened. That speck is a recently discovered comet known as C/2020 X3 (SOHO). At left, images from the LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory show the C/2020 X3 (SOHO) comet in the bottom left-hand corner. And on the right is a composite i...

C/2020 X3, spotted by the NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), is part of the Kreutz family, a group of comets with related orbits that broke off of a giant comet several centuries ago. This image, taken by the LASCO C2 camera on SOHO, shows comet C/2020 X3 in the bottom left-hand corner. Image credit: NASA / ESA / SOHO. C/2020 X3 was discovered by Thai amateur astronomer Worachate Boonplod on the NASA-funded Sungrazer project, a citizen science project that invites anyone to sea...

[3], or SOHO. (left) The LASCO C2 camera on the ESA/NASA SOHO observatory shows comet C/2020 X3 (SOHO) in the bottom left-hand corner. (right) A composite image of the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, based on 65 frames taken by Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.) in Piedras del Aguila, Argentina, and processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur. (ESA/NASA/SOHO/Andreas Möller (Arbeitskreis Meteore e.V.)/processed by Jay Pasachoff and Roman Vanur/Joy Ng. Eclipse image used with permi...

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Recently Discovered Comet Seen During 2020 Total Solar Eclipse Details 18 December 2020 Share This As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun — a recently discovered comet. As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, unbeknownst to skywatchers, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun — a recently discovered come...