Using this telescope, Galileo peered up towards the constellation Orion on January 7, 1610. His target was the planet Jupiter – an object brighter than the surrounding stars. To his surprise ...

The Galileo probe expanded on our knowledge of Jupiter's moon, Io, showing us just how hot and hellish the Jovian satellite ...

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting ...

Galileo, however, turned his telescope peacefully to the skies. He started by observing the Moon, on which he discovered mountains and craters, not an even surface as was believed at the time. Then, ...

Abstract: The highly organized and brightly coloured cloud structure on the nearest and largest gas giant planet Jupiter has been explored by the Galileo orbiter/probe project ... planet at low and ...

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 ...

Among them was the discovery of four moons orbiting Jupiter. To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of ...

In what can be described as a eureka moment, Galileo realized those stars were, in fact, moons orbiting Jupiter. That discovery helped support a heliocentric model of the solar system — a belief ...

DALLAS'Like Jupiter, the next giant of the ... the geocentric model and then the heliocentric model developed by Kepler, Copernicus and Galileo. However, the orrery does not have the correct ...

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.