Watch this comet smash into Jupiter…. this happens a lot! And it might have saved your life.
Jupiter is called the “vacuum cleaner of space” because of its unique ability to “clean up” our galaxy. Its massive size pulls passing objects into its orbit, sometimes shredding them to pieces and sometimes launching them out of the solar system entirely. Its remarkable ability to capture asteroids has prevented plenty of them from reaching us here on Earth.
But the jury is still out on if this planet is actually our cosmic ally, because…
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