On January 7, 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's moons: Callisto, Europa and Io. When he ...
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Jan. 7, 1610: Galileo sees four moons of Jupiter
On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter ...
Although Europa is the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, it’s the smallest of the Galilean moons – the largest being Ganymede. With an equatorial diameter of about 3,100 kilometres, Europa is ...
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 ...
Greetings everyone! We have an unusual sky event this month to start off the new year. On Thursday, 29th of January, there will be a lunar occultation of El Nath, ...
The wolf moon is spectacular enough, but look east and you’ll see a celestial titan the size of a pinprick ...
Jupiter's moon Europa is on the short list of places in our solar system seen as promising in the search for life beyond ...
LOS ANGELES -- NASA's Galileo spacecraft was set to make its last flyby of one of Jupiter's moons early today, marking the likely end of the science-gathering part of its 13-year mission. Galileo was ...
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