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Amateur astronomers capture flash from asteroid impacting Jupiter

24 Sep 2021
Jupiter
Impact zone: the latest event is the seventh time in history that observers have recorded an impact flash on Jupiter. (Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS)
Five amateur astronomers from South America and Europe have captured a burst of light on Jupiter tha

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