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Jupiter Hit by Meteor Again!

Written by The Night Sky Guy on September 13, 2012 – 2:22 pm -

Early Monday morning two American amateur astronomers independently spotted a bright flash of light in the upper cloud-deck of Jupiter – the fourth impact on the gas giant discovered in just the last three years.

Early suspicion by astronomers is that a meteor or comet had hit the atmosphere of the planet – and the fact that it was visible from Earth through backyard telescopes more than 730 million km away – indicates it was probably a significant event.

Read the rest of my Jupiter explosion story at National Geographic News

Check out the actual 2-second video frames of the impact on Jupiter this week as captured by a webcam attached to a 12″ LX200 Meade telescope by a backyard astronomer in Dallas, Texas.