Jupiter Takes One For The (Sol) Team

This won't come even close to topping the astonishing possibility of life on Titan that I posted about yesterday. But it's still pretty important news that Jupiter (right next door to Saturn and Titan) was recently hit by something big enough to make quite a splash. Check out the brief bit of grainy video at that link (which I heard about thanks to Vicki) and then take a moment to reflect on just how fortunate we are to have such good neighbourhood protectors, keeping us safe!