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 ...

Lucky is the word I’d use for any telescopic observers who got to see one of the most stunning spectacles in nature when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter in July 1994. The collision left inky ...

In July 1994, astronomers witnessed something unprecedented: a comet colliding with a planet in real-time. Shoemaker-Levy 9’s fragments pummeled Jupiter with explosive force, creating atmospheric ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted. It's the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and it was detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS ...

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 ...