Hubble telescope captures Jupiter’s new black eye

NASAEver since after an amateur astronomer named Anthony Wesley in Australia captured images of collision between Jupiter and a comet, NASA scientists turned the Hubble Space Telescope towards Jupiter study the black eye marked by the comet.

The Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the largest planet in our solar system. The appearance of the dark spot near Jupiter's southern pole is changing day by day, making it precedence for the scientists to document it promptly.

NASA informed that the picture of black eye taken by Hubble on Thursday is the sharpest visible-light photo of the spot since the scientists repaired and upgraded it in May.

The mysterious new scar is estimated as wide as 6,000 miles.

NASA's Amy Simon-Miller said, "Because we believe this magnitude of impact is rare, we are very fortunate to see it with Hubble."

Scientists equipped the Hubble Space Telescope with the Wide Field Camera 3 to get ultra-sharp images of the black eye.

Fifteen years ago a Comet named Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit the Jupiter and at that time too, remarkable pictures of that incident were captured by Hubble.