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NASA - 12/31/12

SOHO sees comet Lovejoy's approach (left) and exit (right).

These two images were taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and show comet Lovejoy heading in toward the sun (left) and then emerging back out the other side (right) a day later. Credit: NASA/SOHO

As the year 2012 comes to a close, we look back on the major news events coming from NASA’s Heliophysics Division, which studies the sun-Earth connection.

We ended 2011 with a great deal of excitement as provided by comet Lovejoy’s [2] trip around the sun in December, which had scientists and the public amazed with extraordinary imagery provided by the entire Heliophysics solar fleet.

To read the rest of this story, visit NASA.gov. [3]

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[1] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/heliophysics-2012-year-review
[2] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/comet-lovejoy.html
[3] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/2012-review.html
[4] //soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/type-post/earth-space-weather