But eventually, Galileo concluded that the moons’ orbits around Jupiter must be inclined to our line of sight, and drew the moons as they actually appear in the sky. Galileo was always drawing ...

This line engraving of Galileo depicts the astronomer alongside a drawing that shows Earth’s orbit around the Sun, as well as the Moon’s orbit around Earth. Line engraving by Boutrois ...

Galileo Moon Drawings. If the end of Galileo's life bore the poignant stamp of art, so did its beginning. To this day, on the facade of a Florentine palace, a plaque commissioned by Galileo's disciple ...

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 was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, ...

Galileo was the first to discover the moons of Jupiter on this day in history, Jan. 7, 1610. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system with 80 moons.