Galileo Galilei Astronomy News

Galileo Galilei: Biography, Inventions & Other Facts

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a number of inventions and discoveries that remain important to astronomy and science in general today.

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Astronomical art: the changing face of the supermoon

This year's supermoon was spectacular. But the moon has appeared in many forms, from Raphael's childlike image of a luminous being to Galileo Galilei's drawings of a rocky planet Photographers took spectacular shots of this year's "supermoon" , the visual spectacle that occurs once a year when the full moon is closest to the Earth. Pictures showed the giant moon dwarfing observers and looming ...

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St. Ed's students will take audience back in time in 'Starry Messenger'

Students at Saint Edward's School in Vero Beach will go back in time for a journey under the stars with their last drama production of the school year, "Starry Messenger."

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Nicolaus Copernicus Biography: Facts & Discoveries

In the 1500s, when virtually everyone believed Earth was the center of the universe, Nicolas Copernicus proposed the planets rotated around the sun.

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Johannes Kepler Biography

Johannes Kepler used mathematics to calculate the path of the planets.

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