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People have watched the sky since antiquity to keep time and find their way. The telescope of the early 17th century revealed worlds invisible to the naked eye. Since then telescopes and space probes have mapped planets, moons and comets. The sky remains the largest field of exploration.
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by Luboš Kohoutek
A periodic comet spotted one March evening in Hamburg. Luboš Kohoutek discovered it on 7 March 1973 at that city's observatory.
Photo: Immagine ottenuta da un fermo immagine dallo JPL Orbit Diagram della NASA ed in seguito elaborata. (CC BY-SA 3.0)
by David C. Jewitt
For the first time a moon was found in images taken by an interplanetary probe rather than by a telescope on Earth. This small moon of Jupiter measures 20 by 16 by 14 km and is the second closest to the planet.
Photo: NASA/Cornell University (Public domain)
by Edward Emerson Barnard
Since Galileo in 1610 Jupiter had given up no new moon. On 9 September 1892 an American astronomer found one with the 91 cm telescope of the Lick Observatory.
Photo: NASA / JPL (Public domain)
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