On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope ... Europa and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter.

That man was scientist, inventor, and visionary Galileo Galilei. As darkness fell ... This mosaic shows the surfaces of Jupiter’s four Galilean moons images, as seen by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft.

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as Galileo ... They are more commonly referred to as the Galilean moons of Jupiter owing to the fact that they were discovered by Galileo.

There are currently 92 moons known to orbit Jupiter. The four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610 when he pointed the first astronomical telescope ...

Jupiter's four best-known moons are the Galilean moons, discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. They are named Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, after figures in Greek mythology associated with ...

Stunning new Jupiter photos from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal storms, cloud bands, and its volcanic moon Io as the mission ...

The Moon passes 5° north of Jupiter at 9 A.M. EDT. Just six percent illuminated by this evening, you can try to spot the ...

Europa was discovered in 1610 by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. The icy body is the fourth-largest of Jupiter’s 95 known moons. Several space probes have made observations of Europa ...

But the Jupiter mission still had some science to do. ‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com Galileo flew by a small moon called Amalthea. Amalthea is small, but it’s interesting ...