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 ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

On this date, Jan. 7, 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei, with a homemade telescope ... and Ganymede became known as the Galilean moons of Jupiter. Learn more about NASA’s current mission to ...

NASA officials said what Juno spotted was 'the most powerful volcanic event ever recorded on the most volcanic world in our ...

Following the discovery of the Galilean moons in January 1610 by means of a thin telescope with a focal length of 133 centimetres and a magnification of 20, many great astronomers tried to find ...

With the telescope having been recently invented ... They are more commonly referred to as the Galilean moons of Jupiter owing to the fact that they were discovered by Galileo.

On this date, Jan. 17, 2002, the Galileo probe made it’s 33 rd pass of Jupiter’s moon, Io. After Voyager 1’s pass in 1979, Io was dubbed the most volcanically active place in the solar system.

Dave Dexter, composer of The Galilean Suite, four tone poems about the largest moons of Jupiter—Io, ... [+] Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. It's fair to say that of all the moons, it’s Io—the ...

On January 7, 1610, the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's moons: Callisto, Europa and Io. When he looked at Jupiter through his telescope, he saw what he thought were three ...

Io, a highly volcanic world, is the innermost Galilean moon of Jupiter ... Ocean Moons Of Uranus-And There's No Time To WasteBy Jamie Carter You will need a telescope to see such events, but ...

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

Much more recently, beginning in 1892, dozens of far smaller Jovian moons have been detected and have received the names of lovers (or other sexual partners) or daughters of the Roman god Jupiter or ...