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 ...

Composite images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 orbiting Jupiter in 1994. In 1993, three sky watchers — Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker and David Levy — discovered a comet orbiting Jupiter. In their honor, it ...

Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just […] ...

Carolyn S. Shoemaker, the world’s most successful living “comet hunter,” will speak at Cornell University Sunday, April 21, at 1 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The talk is ...

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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 ...

Famed Tucson astronomer and comet hunter David Levy's future was in the stars. Dimly. Barely visible. Levy says he was 8 years old and walking back to his cabin at summer camp. "I happened to be ...