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 they were ...

Galileo’s telescope revealed so many previously invisible ... sequence and carry out observations throughout the night, and shut down come threatening weather, all with little or no human ...

It's worth noting he did not actually invent the telescope as many mistakenly believe (he improved ... and remember that "influential" does not always equal "loudest." Galileo's observations were ...

This observation led to a far deeper understanding ... Brian says that when Galileo put his telescope on Jupiter, he saw four tiny dots moving around the gas giant. “They were all in line ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus' heliocentric model using observations made with telescopes he built himself. However, it was not until Kepler ...

In his 2006 book, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images ... starting with Galileo’s observations of the four largest moons of Jupiter in January, 1610. It is a discovery that ...

Galileo's telescope opened the skies to observation; Hawking's equations made the invisible visible, from black holes to the Big Bang. It's staggering to think about what these two men accomplished.