The pictures were taken in November 1996 ... NASA When the spacecraft’s namesake, Galileo Galilei, first trained his telescope on Jupiter in 1610, he saw only four moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis (Jupiter ... it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei, the man who helped revolutionize our conception ...