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Galileo
[ gal-uh-ley-oh, -lee-oh; Italian gah-lee-le-aw ]
noun
- Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
- Aerospace. a U.S. space probe designed to take photographs and obtain other scientific information while orbiting the planet Jupiter.
Galileo
1/ ˌɡælɪˈleɪəʊ /
noun
- a US spacecraft, launched 1989, that entered orbit around Jupiter in late 1995 to study the planet and its major satellites; burned up in the planet's atmosphere in 2003
Galileo
2/ ˌɡælɪˈleɪəʊ /
noun
- Galileo15641642MItalianSCIENCE: mathematicianSCIENCE: astronomerSCIENCE: physicist full name Galileo Galilei. 1564–1642, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He discovered the isochronism of the pendulum and demonstrated that falling bodies of different weights descend at the same rate. He perfected the refracting telescope, which led to his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, sunspots, and craters on the Earth's moon. He was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support of the Copernican system
Galileo
- An Italian scientist of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; his full name was Galileo Galilei. Galileo proved that objects with different masses fall at the same velocity . One of the first persons to use a telescope to examine objects in the sky, he saw the moons of Jupiter , the mountains on the moon, and sunspots .
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Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts captured the first close-up images, and then in 1995 Nasa’s Galileo spacecraft flew past Europa taking some deeply puzzling pictures.
The Galileo probe flew past it in the 1990s, confirming scientists’ initial hopes that the moon was more than the quiet rocky ball orbiting Earth.
In particular, the team found patterns that match the locations and timescales of sunspots that have been have observed by astronomers since Galileo in 1612.
Galileo was among the first astronomers to turn a telescope skyward and study sunspots, back in the early 1600s.
His mother fashioned a set of homemade leg braces that helped him improve enough to play football at Galileo High School.
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