"Jupiter gets a black eye"

Michio Kaku writes a thoughtful piece; here is an excerpt:

'We sometimes forget that the universe is a violent place.

'This week, astronomers in Hawaii recorded an exceedingly rare event. An amazing photograph revealed a comet or asteroid, probably no more than a mile across, plowing into Jupiter’s atmosphere. The impact created a fireball roughly the size of the planet earth.'

Read it all here.