UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
Question
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the Sun
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the Earth
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Jupiter
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Earth’s moon
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus detailed his radical theory of the Universe in which the Earth, along with the other planets, rotated around the Sun.
Detailed explanation-2: -Copernicus’ observations of the heavens were made with the naked eye. He died more than fifty years before Galileo became the first person to study the skies with a telescope. From his observations, Copernicus concluded that every planet, including Earth, revolved around the Sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, the heliocentric theory of the solar system.
Detailed explanation-5: -To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.