NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures sungrazing comet for the first time

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is designed to im Sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind, has recently captured a sungrazing comet, confirming ability of craft to observe "hard-to-see" comets. im of sungrazing comet was captured from Parker Solar Probe's WISPR instrument. se kinds of comets are hard to observe from Earth or observatories or than NASA and ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which was launched in 1995 to study Sun.  

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Why it is an important observation?

comet has been nicknamed SOHO-4063 after SOHO craft, which was first one to observe fireball. According to NASA, comet, which was first observed on September 13 by citizen scientist Worachate Boonplod, was destroyed due to intense heat as it moved closer to Sun. Parker Solar Probe sends data back to Earth in batches, which means scientists didn't have chance to look for comet until weeks after it was first observed by craft. 

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Parker Solar Probe is closest observatory to Sun, closer than SOHO, which was first such craft sent into to observe star of our solar system. im of sungrazing comet appeared brighter in Parker Solar Probe's data than in SOHO, hence, proving sensitivity of WISPR instrument and giving hope that it may reveal new details about sungrazers in future. 

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Parker Solar Probe, which is named after American solar astrophysicist Eugene Newman Parker, was launched in 2018. Parker Solar Probe broke record of Helios 2 craft to become closest-ever artificial object to Sun. 

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