A meteorite collided with the largest planet in our galaxy

On August 7, a meteorite collided with Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, the Milky Way.

A Texas astronomer filmed the event and posted it on Twitter showing a small flash in the southern half of Jupiter, according to the Express.

Here is an animation more representative of the flash speed #Jupiter occurred. Unfortunately, I could not do this job without cutting 6 images for 7. pic.twitter.com/POQynVOlA8

– Chappel astro (@chappelAstro) August 8, 2019

The astronomer commented: "I noticed the collision thanks to an excellent program called" DeTeCt by Marc Delcroix "specially designed to detect such lightning."

Single image and DeTeCt output image of the potential impact on #Jupiter. pic.twitter.com/kjZZgOYlQf

– Chappel astro (@chappelAstro) August 7, 2019

Some experts believe that Jupiter protects the Earth from meteorite impacts.

Jupiter is not allowed to fly the asteroid belt or meteorites between Mars and Jupiter around the solar system because of its enormous gravitational force.

Two views of #Jupiter early August 7, 2019 with the flash that I recorded. The left shows the moment of impact at 4:07 UTC. Right is an RGB image. pic.twitter.com/xPmS8MMFhc

– Chappel astro (@chappelAstro) August 8, 2019

Jupiter is also believed to be attracting lunar asteroids, and NASA has announced that Lula's gravitational force, the mbadive planet (Jupiter), would continually strike meteorite planets.

"The presence of Jupiter already protects Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars from repeated collisions of the asteroid," NASA said in a statement.

This is not the first time that a meteorite has collided with Jupiter and this has already occurred on July 19, 2009.