Making the nation proud, a Class XII student of Ahlcon Public School in New Delhi discovered a new comet using data from NASA and European Space Agency’s spacecraft-based observatory that studies the Sun.

Discovered by Prafull Sharma — member of a world-wide team of comet hunters who scour through images of the Sun transmitted back to Earth by Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) — the new comet (SOHO 2333) is a fragment believed to have separated from a relatively larger comet Machholz when it last came close to the Sun in 2007.