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Photo:©Bradford Robotic Telescope
The four largest satellites of Jupiter are easily seen in a small telescope and were
first observed by Galileo.

The other more dramatic discovery involved
Jupiter. After Venus,
the Sun, and the Moon,
Jupiter is the brightest
object in the sky, and
at the moment (spring
2015), it is prominent
high in the sky in the

early evening. Galileo
turned his telescope
onto Jupiter just as you
can with the robotic
telescope and was able
to see the bright planet
with its tiny family of
moons, just like the
planets going around
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the Sun. The faint line
of dots of light change
their position every
night sometimes disappearing behind Jupiter
or each other as Jupiter
follows its majestic
journey around the
Sun. You can see these