Lucky is the word I’d use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...
Some of Hubble's most "impactful" observations captured comet fragments crashing into Jupiter. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was shredded by Jupiter’s gravity, and its fragments (21 in all) plunged into ...
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When a Comet Strike Lit Up Jupiter on Camera
In 1994, telescopes caught Shoemaker-Levy 9 crashing into Jupiter, creating explosions larger than Earth and the most dramatic footage ever recorded in astronomy. Donald Trump’s disapproval rating ...
The fate of Shoemaker-Levy 9 was actually far worse, as the orbit of the comet/s was destined to send the objects into the atmosphere of Jupiter! The impacts occurred in July, 1994, but on the dark ...
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