Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

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Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope, noticed three points of light near Jupiter. Initially believing they were distant stars, Galileo’s repeated observations over several nights and realized ...

As its name suggests, the mission’s target is Europa, one of the biggest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Europa is a snowball ... phosphorus and sulphur. All of these have already been found ...

and how it changes as the volcanic moon is squeezed and stretched by Jupiter's (and its fellow moons') gravity. If Io did have a sub-surface ocean of magma, the moon would deform under Jupiter's ...

The Juno mission, which has been orbiting and observing Jupiter and its moons ... and all across its middle, (which are) constantly going off.” The new data suggests that Io’s numerous ...

but will also be visible all night long. If conditions are clear, anyone with a pair of binoculars or a telescope may even be able to pick out details, such as Jupiter’s four largest moons — Ganymede, ...

Observations from NASA's Juno spacecraft, combined with all-available historical data, indicate that volcanic activity on Jupiter's second ... understanding of other moons, such as Enceladus ...

but will also be visible all night long. If conditions are clear, anyone with a pair of binoculars or a telescope may even be able to pick out details, such as Jupiter’s four largest moons ...