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When a comet hits a tidally locked exo-Earth (phys.org)
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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 points 2 weeks ago

For anyone wondering like I did, that image is not what the headline suggests:

An ultraviolet image of the train of Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet fragments impacting Jupiter's atmosphere in 1994. The black dot near the top is Jupiter's moon Io. Credit: Hubble Space Telescope Comet Team, NASA

Source: the linked article.