{"id":24084,"date":"2016-03-29T13:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/something-just-slammed-into-jupiter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:36:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:36:11","slug":"something-just-slammed-into-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/something-just-slammed-into-jupiter","title":{"rendered":"Something Just Slammed Into Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/something-just-slammed-into-jupiter.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers have captured video evidence of a collision between Jupiter and a small celestial object, likely a comet or asteroid. Though it looks like a small blip of light, the resulting explosion was unusually powerful.<\/p>\n<p>As Phil Plait of <em>Bad Astronomy<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2016\/03\/29\/jupiter_hit_by_asteroid_or_comet_in_march_2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>, the collision occurred on March 17, but confirmation of the event only emerged this week. An amateur Austrian astronomer used a 20-centimeter telescope to chronicle the unexpected event, but it could\u2019ve been some kind of visual artifact.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4LiL7RYG7ac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ready-to-edit-something-just-slammed-into-jupiter-1767726856\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/ready-to-edit-something-just-slammed-into-jupiter-1767726856<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have captured video evidence of a collision between Jupiter and a small celestial object, likely a comet or asteroid. Though it looks like a small blip of light, the resulting explosion was unusually powerful. As Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy reports, the collision occurred on March 17, but confirmation of the event only emerged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62240,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084\/revisions\/62240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}