EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -In March 1610, Galileo published his discoveries of Jupiter’s satellites and other celestial observations in a book titled Siderius Nuncius (The Starry Messenger).

Detailed explanation-2: -In 1609, using this early version of the telescope, Galileo became the first person to record observations of the sky made with the help of a telescope. He soon made his first astronomical discovery.

Detailed explanation-3: -Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy in 1564 and he died in Florence at his house while house-arrest in 1642. Kepler was born in 1571 in a community near Stuttgart, Germany and died in 1630 during a voyage in Regensburg.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1990, humans placed in outer space the most accurate eye ever to gaze at the universe, the Hubble Space Telescope. But that would not have been possible without a less technological, but equally revolutionary, invention-the telescope presented by Galileo Galilei on August 25, 1609.