The sun and celestial body impact?

We’ve witnessed celestial body impacts on planetary bodies in our solar system as evidenced by craters as well as direct observation as in the case of the Shoemaker-Levy impact on Jupiter. In fact, Jupiter is considered to be a vacuum cleaner of sorts in that it’s gravity is sufficiently strong enough to prevent many more impacts from occurring in the inner solar system. Obviously, the gravity of the sun is the strongest in the solar system. And the sun isn’t immune to impacts.

Does the sun’s luminosity prevent impacts from being observed? Could impacts be the source of sun spots or other solar phenomena? What research has been done in this area and where can I find it?

I’ve never heard of the effect impacts have on the sun. There must have been amazing solar impacts during the accretion of the solar system. In considering the theory of the creation of the moon, a planet about the size of Mars, Thera, impacted with the Earth. Certainly, planets must have impacted with the sun during the early formation of the solar system. It’s obvious there is no record of these impacts, but, there are still other impacts occurring in the solar system, and certainly with the sun.

I’d love to hear the thoughts of others in this area.