{"id":94590,"date":"2019-08-08T17:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-meteor-just-exploded-on-jupiter-and-a-photographer-actually-caught-it-on-video"},"modified":"2019-08-08T17:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T00:42:37","slug":"a-meteor-just-exploded-on-jupiter-and-a-photographer-actually-caught-it-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/a-meteor-just-exploded-on-jupiter-and-a-photographer-actually-caught-it-on-video","title":{"rendered":"A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-meteor-just-exploded-on-jupiter-and-a-photographer-actually-caught-it-on-video3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With Jupiter currently gracing the northern sky at night, it\u2019s a great time to be pointing a telescope at our Solar System\u2019s colossus. But one astrophotographer got the sight of a lifetime \u2014 what appears to be the flash of an impact, as something exploded in the planet\u2019s thick upper atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>On 7 August 2019, at 4:07 UTC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chappelastro.com\/\">Ethan Chappel<\/a> in Texas caught the incredibly rare sight on camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImaged Jupiter tonight,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChappelAstro\">he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cLooks awfully like an impact flash in the [southern equatorial belt].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Jupiter currently gracing the northern sky at night, it\u2019s a great time to be pointing a telescope at our Solar System\u2019s colossus. But one astrophotographer got the sight of a lifetime \u2014 what appears to be the flash of an impact, as something exploded in the planet\u2019s thick upper atmosphere. On 7 August 2019, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94590","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}