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Scientists Watch Comet Impact Jupiter (1994)

People gathered around computer screens.
June 18, 2019
Credit NASA/STSci
Historical Date July 16, 1994
Language
  • english

Scientists gather to watch as the Hubble Space Telescope sends back the first images of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 as it crashed into Jupiter. This was the first time humans witnesses such an epic impact.