Comets Tale: Gallery of Comets
 

Comet Shoemaker-Levy

 MAGIC Infrared Camera/Max Planck Institute, Germany

  Comet Shoemaker-Levy  1994

Fragment A of Comet Shoemaker-Levy impacts the surface of Jupiter - July 16, 1994.  Fragment impacts on lower left side of image as one of Jupiter's moons sets on the right.
 

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