On January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei pointed a small twenty-power telescope at Jupiter. What he observed changed the way we understood the universe. Galileo noticed what appeared to be three small ...

Galileo Galilei identified four of Jupiter's orbiting moons, examined Saturn, observed the varying phases of Venus, and scrutinized sunspots on the surface of the sun. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 4.

Named for astronomer Galileo Galilei, the spacecraft launched at last on Oct. 18, 1989, ... Galileo broke up in Jupiter's atmosphere on Sept. 21, 2003.

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 ...

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) – NASA’s aging Galileo spacecraft plunged into Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere yesterday, bringing a deliberately fiery conclusion to a 14-year, $1.5 billion exploration of the ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a number of inventions and discoveries that remain important to astronomy and science in general today. ... JPL: Galileo Mission to Jupiter; ...

More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they've dubbed "oddball" — orbiting the planet. That ...

Galileo spacecraft closing in for death plunge to Jupiter / 3 billion-mile, 14-year trek to meet fiery climax Sunday. By David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Sep 20, 2003. ... Galileo Galilei, ...

Part of that is because of how technology has improved. "If you think about the fact that Galileo was basically designed in the early '80s or mid '80s, that's totally different from Juno, where ...

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 ...