Fête du Soleil : un grand rendez-vous européen renaît   Logo de la Fête du Soleil 2009 (2-21 juin). Meudon, Toulouse, Juvisy, Dijon, Lyon...     This mega-flare was seen being spewed out by the Sun starting at 20:29 CET on 4 November 2003. This video sequence was captured by SOHO's Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.   An artist's impression of SOHO Historique de la Fête du Soleil     The ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft has just discovered its 1500th comet, making it more successful than all other comet discoverers throughout history put together. Not bad for a spacecraft that was designed as a solar physics mission. SOHO’s record-breaking discovery was made on 25 June. The images of the small and faint object were captured by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronograph (LASCO), one of 12 instruments on board.   Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Huygens Project Scientist (ESA Directorate for Science and Robotic Exploration) Release date: 6 août 2009