Scientists stumble on a meteor smashing into Jupiter
Stare at this gas giant long enough and you'll eventually have a blast.
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This color-enhanced image shows a NASA Juno view of Jupiter in late 2020.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; image processing by Tanya Oleksuik
Researchers using NASA's Juno spacecraft to check out Jupiter's auroras say they got lucky last spring and caught a very bright meteoroid explosion in the process.
Such impacts aren't rare for Jupiter, since it's the largest planet in the solar system with some seriously powerful gravity to boot.
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