GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

SOLAR SYSTEM

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who was the first person to study the night sky with a telescope?
A
Franklin
B
Aristotle
C
Ptolemy
D
Galileo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1609 an Italian physicist and astronomer named Galileo became the first person to point a telescope skyward.

Detailed explanation-2: -However, the most curious thing that Galileo was able to observe with the eight-magnification telescope he built (the first tube he used is believed to have come from a pipe organ) was that Jupiter was surrounded by moons and was a system similar to what the solar system should be.

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