Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource was adapted from NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." In 1610, when Galileo first pointed his newly built telescope toward the sky, ...
Every wonder what the sky looked like hundreds of years ago? Where the planets were? We know that the constellations change so slowly that even if you time-traveled King Tut out of ancient Egypt into ...
On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter — a discovery that would change his life forever. These four moons are Jupiter’s largest satellites — lo, Europa, Ganymede and ...
On a third and final tour of duty in the Jovian system, NASA's dauntless Galileo spacecraft makes its closest pass yet to Jupiter's outermost large moon. On a third and final tour of duty in the ...
In a mission that changed our understanding of gas giants, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made history not just in orbit but also in its dramatic descent into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Launched in October 1989 ...
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