Dean Regas chats with astronomer David Levy, unpacking the discovery of the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Listen in and find out how you can start chasing comets yourself. Looking Up is transcribed ...
The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...
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In 1994, the universe gave us front-row seats to the most colossal explosion ever witnessed. When fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet collided with Jupiter, the impacts were so massive, they left ...
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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