In the early 1600s, Dutch spectacle maker Jan Lippershey discovered that combining lenses could magnify distant objects.

Galileo, who discovered Saturn's rings in 1610, did not know what he was seeing, and first circulated discovery in code to friends that Saturn was star flanked by two smaller bodies; in 1659 ...

Galileo, who discovered Saturn's rings in 1610, did not know what he was seeing, and first circulated discovery in code to friends that Saturn was star flanked by two smaller bodies; in 1659 ...

Galileo's drawing of the solar system. Florence, 1611. The exhibit Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries, is previewed at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on Feb. 4. The drawings ...

As Saturn’s rings vanish during 2025, so too does the constancy Galileo thought he observed in the strangest member of the Sun’s family of planets. Cronos, the monstrous son-devourer, has ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...

Galileo Galilei (Italian) was the first person credited to observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with a telescope. Thomas Harriot (English) and Simon Marius (German) are two other early ...

In the 17th century, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first to observe Saturn through his rudimentary telescope. (Representative Image: Canva) ...

On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after the telescope was invented in 1608, Galileo peered out into the ...