Story highlights Two amateur astronomers capture footage of an unknown object apparently slamming into Jupiter

Some theories suggest the object is a comet or an asteroid

(CNN) In case you missed it, the largest planet in our solar system was struck by a foreign object.

Videos emerged this week of an object apparently hitting Jupiter. The footage shows a quick flash on the right side of the planet as an object seemingly makes impact.

Amateur astronomer Gerrit Kernbauer , from Modling, Austria, said he documented the incident on March 17 while observing the planet with a telescope. He posted the video on YouTube, drawing over a million views.

At first, Kernbauer wasn't sure what he saw. "The seeing was not the best, so I hesitated to process the videos," he wrote in the video's description. "Nevertheless, 10 days later, I looked through the videos and I found this strange light spot that appeared for less than one second on the edge of the planetary disc."

This made him think about a similar incident that occurred when fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet hammered Jupiter in 1994. That impact was observed by NASA's Galileo spacecraft, as well as astronomers on Earth.

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