A Baby Planet May Have Once Smashed Into Jupiter | SciShow News
Shortly after Jupiter formed, it might have been struck by an object that may have otherwise become its own planet! And researchers have a new estimate of how many Earth-like planets might exist. Check out Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtu.be/io731XY8fH8 Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1470-2 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ru-yjw081519.php https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017GL073160 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ab31ab https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ps-hme081419.php Images: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA13746 https://news.rice.edu/2019/08/14/young-jupiter-was-smacked-head-on-by-massive-newborn-planet/ https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12296 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR4HPIAYGc8&feature=youtu.be https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1470-2 https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/tumultuous-clouds-of-jupiter https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler442b(comp).jpg https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/ps-hme081419.php https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13155