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Another solar eclipse coming up for PROBA-2

The PROBA-2 team is preparing for the next eclipse. Upcoming March 29, the solar instruments onboard will observe their 35th eclipse, which is quite rare for solar instruments like LYRA and SWAP.

Preparing for Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS)

UPDATE: the comet desintegrated before it reached the SWAP field-of-view.

A sungrazer comet is racing towards its close encouter with the solar corona. As part of a massive, world-wide campaign to study the comet, the SWAP imager will attempt to capture images of the comet as it passes the sun. If SWAP is able to see the comet, the observations could yield important information both about comets, the solar corona, and the sun's complex magnetic field.

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