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 ...

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In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

In fact, data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft back in 2017 revealed it's expected to actually take 100 million years ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... That's what Galileo did when he pointed his telescope at the heavens and declared that Earth wasn't the centre of the ...

But across his long career, nothing beats the time he spent in a Florentine library where he handled some of the original observing notes written by Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer who ...