Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

Another comet that crashed into Jupiter back in 1994 left huge, dark scars throughout the planet’s atmosphere and sent superheated plumes into Jupiter’s stratosphere.

JPL/NASA/STScI . In July 1994, the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter after breaking apart into many pieces. Astronomers around the world watched the epic comet crash in real-time with ...

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Jupiter holds water from 1994 comet crash. May 7, 2013, 3:15 PM EDT. By Science. ... In July 1994, more than 20 broken-up pieces of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter, ...

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

The stratosphere of Jupiter is filled with water delivered to the giant planet by a cataclysmic comet crash in 1994 that not only wowed scientists at the time, but spawned a legacy that is still ...

While astronomers watched comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's Jupiter crash from Earth, NASA's Galileo spacecraft -- which was en route Jupiter at the time -- captured stunning images of the collision.

The comet had been orbiting Jupiter for nearly a decade before Jupiter’s gravity tore it to shreds, breaking it apart into 20 fragments. The string of fragments had been caught in a two-year ...

A video captured by an amateur astronomer in Japan shows a super-bright comet, also known as a bolide, exploding as it collides with Jupiter. ... Object Crashes Into Jupiter, Explodes.

Before that, in 1994, fragments of a comet crashed into Jupiter in violent succession, creating a stunning series of bright flashes. A fragment of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impacts Jupiter’s ...

For Jupiter — 11 times wider than our planet — this was a small impact event. Large collisions, like from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, left dark splotches on the Jovian surface, including ...