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omet Shoemaker-Levy 9 provided one of the most spectacular space sights astronomers have ever witnessed when it smashed into our Solar System’s biggest planet in July 1994. But this wasn’t just a one-off event; the comet was made up of 21 separate fragments which collided with Jupiter over a 7-day span. A large amount of media attention was directed toward at the event as it provided the first opportunity to view an extra-terrestrial collision of Solar System objects. The comet’s initial discovery was somewhat of a fluke when astronomers Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy came across it while conducting other observations in March 1993. But after taking a photo of the mysterious looking comet this discovery soon overshadowed the project they had been working on of uncovering near-Earth objects. The Shoemakers and Levy were no strangers to detecting new comets and this one was