Shoemaker-Levy 9

This image of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in May, 1994, two months before the comet's 21 fragment chain collided with Jupiter.
Image Number: WEB13815-2014
Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute
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