Its hard to be the biggest planet in the solar system, and this fall Jupiter is taking a beating.On Friday (Oct. 15), skywatchers in Japan observed a flash in the environment of the planets northern hemisphere most likely caused by an asteroid slamming into Jupiter, just over a month after a skywatcher in Brazil made a similar observation.”The flash felt like it was shining for a very long time to me,” Twitter user @yotsuyubi21, who photographed the flash with a Celestron C6 telescope, informed Space.com.Related: Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera10 15 22:24(JST)PONCOTS 500-750nm 889nm pic.twitter.com/Hs2wJp0s5FOctober 17, 2021See moreThey verified the observation with a group led by Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer at Japans Kyoto University who takes part in the Organized Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey(OASES)project.According to a tweet posted by the task, that observation consisted of 2 various types of light, infrared and visible, giving Jupiter an eerie pink glow.An observer recorded a flash on Jupiter on Oct. 15, 2021, as seen in Japan with a Celestron C6.
