Comets discovered by the SOHO solar orbiter

ISEE-3/ICE (1978-1981) sent to study comet Giacobini-Zinner

Giotto’s Adoration

of the Magi (1305-1306)

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Giotto (ESA) 1986-1992

Galileo: encountered Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in July, 1994

An artist's impression of the Ulysses spacecraft passing through the tail of comet Hyakutake. European Space Agency/David Hardy

Deep Space 11998-2001

STARDUST (2006)

Rosetta (2004-2014)67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Deep Impact fires projectile into Comet Tempel 1

Hartley 2, Close Up from EPOXI

before-and-after comparison of the part of comet Tempel 1 that was hit by the impactor from NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft.