The skywatchers confirmed the observation with a team led by Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer at Japan’s Kyoto University who takes part in the Organised Autotelescopes for Serendipitous Event Survey (OASES) project.

According to a tweet posted by the project, the October 15 observation included two different types of light, visible and infrared, giving Jupiter an eerie pink glow, the report said.

“Jupiter regularly experiences such impacts because of the powerful gravitational tug associated with its mass: Smaller objects, like the asteroids that litter the solar system, can easily end up pulled into the planet’s thick, turbulent atmosphere,” the report said.