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How you can observe impacts on Jupiter

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 ...

I Once Thought Jupiter Was a Soft 'Gas Balloon', But After Learning More, I Discovered Its Super Hard Core

For a long time, Jupiter had always been in my mind as that 'gas ball' composed of hydrogen and helium from documentaries. My imagination made me think that any celestial body could easily penetrate ...
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The First Comet We Ever Saw Slam Into Jupiter May Have Left It With A New Ring

The rings of Jupiter might not be as spectacular as Saturn’s (whose are?) but they are there. However, one of them may not have existed before just a few decades ago. A new hypothesis suggests that ...
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Impact Jupiter : the crash of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 / David H. Levy, co-discoverer of the comet

https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001~!482038~!0#focus ...
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The Object at the Center of Jupiter Is So Strange That It Defies Comprehension

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers: an object so unfathomably dense and hot that it defies comprehension. Conventional ...
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Possible bright impact seen on Jupiter

Stop the presses! Word comes this evening of a possible new impact on Jupiter observed by amateur astronomer Dan Peterson of Racine, Wis. He saw "a bright white two second long explosion just inside ...
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Jupiter comet’s water matches Earth’s oceans, may have brought water to globe: NASA

New research indicates that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature closely matching that of water found in Earth's oceans. This discovery revives the possibility that ...
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Amateur Astronomers Detect Massive Impact Flash on Jupiter

Astronomers around the world are buzzing with the news that something crashed into Jupiter. The question is: What was it? Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
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NASA finds interstellar comet near Jupiter, will be closest to Earth in October

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and ...

Where did the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS come from?

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...
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When a comet hits a tidally locked exo-Earth

Comets that have hit Earth have been a mixed bag. Early in Earth's history, during the solar system's chaotic beginning, they were likely the source of our planet's water, ultimately making up about 0 ...