Shoemaker-Levy 9 would show that such collisions are not just part of the past, but the present and maybe the future.Part of the challenge of shoemaker-Levy 9 is getting Hubble to follow an event in real time.The Telescope usually looks at processes that unfold millions of years.But a comet's death would happen rapidlyIn July 1994, the team gathers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, to watch the comet make contact with the planet.We didn't know what was gonna happen when Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter.And it was really possible that nothing would happen at all.The first image of Shoemaker-Levy 9 came in.It seemed to show no signs of impact.But then, new images came in Look!Look... Oh my god! Look at that!The planet had rotated enough that the impact site was visible on the disc.
