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 ...

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter in 1994, creating an explosion thousands of times more potent than Earth's nuclear arsenal. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

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 ...

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Two decades after the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter, co-discoverer David Levy expressed delight that water in the planet's atmosphere was recently traced back to ...

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 […] ...

The spectacle of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pummeling Jupiter was a major news event last month (July 17-22). Scientists could scarcely contain their excitement as they described this unprecedented ...

From the archives: In 1994 comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter, creating fireballs 2000 kilometres across – and raising US Congress alarm about what would happen if one hit Earth ...

In July 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9) hit Jupiter and left visible scars on the Jovian disk for weeks. This spectacular event was the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial ...

Astronomers think that 95 per cent of the water arrived on comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which smashed into Jupiter in July 1994. It seems the planet’s upper atmosphere was unevenly splashed.

The Shoemaker’s and Levy co-discovered the comet. The emotional payoff of discovering a comet orbiting a planet was something Levy described as a “magic day,” which occurred on March 23, 1993.

From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, crashed into Jupiter over several days, creating huge, dark scars in the planet’s ...