On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly ...

Today in the history of astronomy, Galileo is confused by his observations of Saturn.

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.

Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope, changing astronomy forever. Through his telescope, all of a sudden, details beyond human perception ...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the first to view the rings, in 1610. What he saw through his crude telescope left him completely baffled, as Saturn appeared to him not to have rings but rather ...

In 1610, Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings, though his telescope was too crude to identify them as actual rings. He described them as "Saturn's ears" since they looked like two ...

If he had sat in mission control alongside the scientists in charge of the Cassini spacecraft when it made its climactic entry into Saturn's orbit, Galileo Galilei would have been astonished. When ...

The first glimpse of Saturn’s famous rings were made by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) who pointed his crude, imperfect "optick tube" toward Saturn, and saw it appearing to have an odd pair of ...

Galileo Galilei was the first human to ever observe Saturn's rings over 400 years ago in 1610. According to NASA, he wrote that Saturn had "ears," being unable to make out the finer details ...

Galileo, who discovered Saturn's rings in 1610, did not know what he was seeing, and first circulated discovery in code to friends that Saturn was star flanked by two smaller bodies; in 1659 ...

According to NASA, in 1610 the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope to the night sky, discovering the four moons of Jupiter – Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Galileo also ...

On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after the telescope was invented in 1608, Galileo peered out into the ...