Most Planets Have No Known Date of First Observation . Before we begin, I want you to imagine a clear night sky you've ...
On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated ...
PhotoPhoto of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light. The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his "trouble-making" telescope, is more than 5 times farther from the Sun than ...
3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...
She was kind of a Rock Star Nun' — 4th Wall to stage 'Searching for Galileo's Daughter' at Museum of Worcester ...
Thus was born the study of optics. In 1609, about a year after an unknown author made the very first attempt to patent a telescope, Galileo Galilei designed and built his famous instrument ...
Imagine standing alone against an empire. That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the universe. The Moon wasn't a perfect ...