Galileo

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Galileos Observations
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The Milky Way

• Discovered the Milky Way was, in fact, NOT milk,
  but 1000s of stars.
• This is his image of Pleiades.

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The Moon may or may not be cheese

• Sketches of the moons bumps. Mountains,
  craters.

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Saturns a bit wide in the saddle

• Saturn has bulges.
• Did not know they were rings thought they were
  additional worlds.

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Sunspots

• After staring at the Sun, he noticed dark spots!
  (Imagine that).

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Galilean Moons

• Discovered Jupiter had moons.
• Uh oh! Geocentricity?

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Phases of Venus

• NOT possible if Earth was the center of
  everything.