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Astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered it in 1610, in 2011—some four centuries later—NASA launched its Juno mission. The spacecraft has been exploring the Jovian system since 2016, beaming jaw ...
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📅 Today in History: In 1610, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, through improvements he made on a homemade telescope, first observed Jupiter’s four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa.