--- title: Jupiter: Videos Appear to Show Something Crash Into Planet description: Observers in Austria and Ireland caught a flash of light canonical: https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-30T18:10:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:19:09.499Z article:section: Science og:title: 2 Amateur Videos Appear to Show Something Crash Into Jupiter og:description: Observers in Austria and Ireland caught a flash of light og:url: https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2 Amateur Videos Appear to Show Something Crash Into Jupiter twitter:description: Observers in Austria and Ireland caught a flash of light twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 2 Amateur Videos Appear to Show Something Crashing Into Jupiter by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 30, 2016 6:10 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Mar 30, 2016 6:10 PM UTC Two amateur astronomers in Austria and Ireland each captured footage of what appears to be an [object crashing into Jupiter](http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/jupiter-impact-astronomer-videos/#72FEgLmFGSqu) on March 17. Both videos show a flash of light on the side of the planet which could possibly be a comet or asteroid hitting Jupiter, Mashable reports. After Gerrit Kernbauer of Austria shared the video on the Internet, John Mckeon of Ireland thought to check back with his footage from that night and saw he had captured something that corresponded with Kernbauer’s images. Now the work will be left to professional scientists to determine exactly what happened. \[[_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2016/03/29/jupiter-impact-astronomer-videos/#72FEgLmFGSqu)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/"},"headline":"2 Amateur Videos Appear to Show Something Crashing Into Jupiter","datePublished":"2016-03-30T18:10:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:19:09.499Z","description":"Observers in Austria and Ireland caught a flash of light","url":"https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/","keywords":["Space"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/space/","name":"Space"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4276125/jupiter-crash-videos/","name":"2 Amateur Videos Appear to Show Something Crashing Into Jupiter"}}]}] ```