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A 4x4 grid of images of the planet Jupiter. A large portion of the planet Jupiter fills the frames. The planet is tilted to the right at about a 45-degree angle so that the cloud bands run from lower left to upper right. The top quarter shows the black background of space. The series of images shows a time sequence of as a piece of a comet slams into the planet. The comet impacts on the top center, limb, creating a plume followed by a dark brown, circular scar that rotates into view and towards the bottom of the frame.

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A 4x4 grid of images of the planet Jupiter. A large portion of the planet Jupiter fills the frames. The planet is tilted to the right at about a 45-degree angle so that the cloud bands run from lower left to upper right. The top quarter shows the black background of space. The series of images shows a time sequence of as a piece of a comet slams into the planet. The comet impacts on the top center, limb, creating a plume followed by a dark brown, circular scar that rotates into view and towards the bottom of the frame.
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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 01:57:14 JST Kelly Lepo

This week marks the 30th anniversary of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slamming into Jupiter.
One of my formative childhood memories is eagerly waiting for the comet to hit Jupter and then seeing the #Hubble images after at a public lecture at the local university.
Here is an Illuminated Universe guest post from a few years ago by @spacegeck about reprocessing the Hubble data.
https://illuminateduniverse.org/2020/06/18/guest-post-a-new-take-on-a-comets-impact-for-hubbles-30th/

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