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 ...

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 ...

Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized ...

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 ...