KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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The father of modern science:made improvements to the telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, among many other scientific accomplishments.
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Galileo Galilei
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Sir Isaac Newton
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Albert Einstein
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Louis Pasteur
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He had discovered three of the largest moons of Jupiter. The implications of this discovery, of objects orbiting a planet, were part of what pushed Galileo to argue for a sun-centered cosmos. Jupiter’s moons countered a key argument against the Earth orbiting the sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Peering through his newly-improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter on Jan. 7, 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei noticed three other points of light near the planet, at first believing them to be distant stars.
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