A new comet was discovered sling-shotting around the sun, as seen in this image from Feb. 20, 2015 by SOHO.
A new comet was discovered sling-shotting around the sun, as seen in this image from Feb. 20, 2015 by ESA/NASA’s SOHO. The comet is not from any known family of comets. The sun is blocked in this image, called a coronagraph, so that the dim light of the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, is visible. Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHO/Hill