400 Years Ago Today:

July 30, 1610: Astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the rings of Saturn.
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    • Rob Woolbright I remember the first time I saw Saturn and it's rings through a telescope. Unforgettable.
      July 30, 2010 at 5:26am
    • Nikolas Kolaitis Hawkeye οοοuuuuuuaaaaaooou
      July 30, 2010 at 5:27am
    • Elena Muröîa Beautiful...!
      July 30, 2010 at 5:28am
    • Dipika Barman Three cheers 4 Galilio.....
      July 30, 2010 at 5:30am
    • Taylor Ann Lawson I just watched the (was it Discovery Channel?")'s show on that! Very interesting! Gallileo was always my favorite ancinet astronomer. :)
      July 30, 2010 at 5:39am · 1
    • Aman Mahajan Lovely
      July 30, 2010 at 5:44am
    • Tony Mathew he really ws a genius!!
      July 30, 2010 at 5:52am
    • Angga Anda like too ^^
      July 30, 2010 at 5:56am
    • Deb Wyrzykowski I love Saturn, of course I love Earth more, but its so breathtaking and those rings and colors...what if earth had rings and we could see them...
      July 30, 2010 at 6:05am
    • Robert Gorman Look at the light filtering at the north. That's pretty sweet. The rings are filtering out blue, so that's what you see. Thus the rings are mainly water.
      July 30, 2010 at 6:15am · 1
    • Shelly Conley The first person documented to date in historical archives perhaps, however, I do not believe that Galileo is the first person to observe the rings of Saturn, your thoughts?
      July 30, 2010 at 6:53am
    • Katarina Maryla Glodek Glodek yes and he wasnt shure for a first time what is this - he was thinking the Saturn has sometnik like "ears" even before died he didnt find out what was that- the rings.
      July 30, 2010 at 7:10am
    • Marc Victor Culot El primero y con poco medio.
      July 30, 2010 at 7:14am
    • Linda Garcia Awesome!!
      July 30, 2010 at 7:44am
    • Arturo Danielsson Galileo es mi ídolo muhaahahaha
      July 30, 2010 at 8:08am
    • Tess Baxter He certainly documented it well.
      July 30, 2010 at 8:17am
    • Peter Lia it must have been fascinating for him to observe them for the 1st time
      July 30, 2010 at 8:37am
    • Audrey Jean i would love to fly around this one...beautiful
      July 30, 2010 at 8:37am
    • Pamela Espinosa oh wow!!
      July 30, 2010 at 8:39am
    • Shivam Verma galileo was great....
      July 30, 2010 at 8:40am
    • Ryan George i dont think he was the first...but maybe the first European to make a record of it
      July 30, 2010 at 8:52am
    • Olusola Oluwagbemi Up Galileo.
      July 30, 2010 at 8:57am · 1
    • David Anders a great man bold brave a savior if you will
      July 30, 2010 at 8:59am
    • Yerko Dante Leiva Veliz ‎=)
      July 30, 2010 at 9:46am
    • Jonata Russo De Moura G♂♀d Aftern☺☻n!!! Galileo Galilei will never be forgotten. Thanks for all the scientists who dedicated their lives to beneficiate the humanity. Hug***
      July 30, 2010 at 11:27am
    • Augusta Soares and Without high-tech..........
      July 30, 2010 at 11:55am
    • Burk Praël check out the documentary "400 years of the telescope". A PBS special put out recently.
      July 30, 2010 at 1:38pm
    • Eduardo Correa Lima Grats to Galileo on his discovery and for challenging the conventional dogmatic "wisdom" of the time. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
      July 30, 2010 at 3:35pm
    • Stephens Susan I was absolutely amazed when I saw Saturns Rings thru a telescope !!!! I am sure the percentage of people who have been blessed to see that is very low : ( . I was really blessed that a scientice shared this with some of us at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff Az..: ) Wow !!!! Bravo!! thru his own telescope.. : )
      July 30, 2010 at 4:54pm
    • Stephens Susan Oopps This phone type O.. Scientist....
      July 30, 2010 at 4:59pm
    • Azim Ebrahimi can u just believe the thickness of rings is about 3 meters ?!?!?!!? omy god
      the prettiest thing in universe , got 2 b saturn
      July 30, 2010 at 4:59pm
    • Neilkanth Anghan Galileo Galilei --- Once a genius scientist and also one of the brave one...

      If some orthodox dog don't stop him activities den i sure to say that today we get something special about our mother solar system and also enrichment about universe... and many more factor....

      By de way we take oath to try it...
      July 30, 2010 at 9:28pm
    • Chris J Streetman I do believe a rings is like Moon Dust..and saturn was borned to too many moons then some moons hit each of them to sent a dusting around it in past.
      July 30, 2010 at 9:32pm
    • Chonam Mardya beautiful planet........i love it!!!
      July 30, 2010 at 9:50pm
    • Alf Black Get wracked...the bus didn't go that way in them day's.
      July 30, 2010 at 10:04pm
    • Harsh Mundel Jai ho Shani baba :)
      July 30, 2010 at 11:09pm
    • Archana Patnaik Hats Off! to Galileo!!! 8)))
      July 30, 2010 at 11:40pm
    • Nirav Agrawal hmmm...d gr8 astronomer....galileo...found somuch scientific tech...so dat's y...v r doing well in engg...
      July 30, 2010 at 11:52pm
    • Mutsuko Tsuchihashi wow!! this is my favorite planet.
      July 31, 2010 at 1:24am
    • Patrick Navarre ‎" et pourtant , elle tourne "
      July 31, 2010 at 4:50am
    • Marie Caroline Jonsson http://www.facebook.com/Science.et.Technologie
      July 31, 2010 at 7:22am
    • Pedro Sabino Gomes Y per si muove...
      July 31, 2010 at 4:11pm
    • Wieslaw Kotarba Kosmos jest jak marzenie, senne marzenie o nieskończoności.
      August 1, 2010 at 8:42am
    • Kostas Spyropoulos As long as there is will new worlds will always be accesible...
      August 1, 2010 at 3:59pm
    • Bruce Thompson
      ‎@Katarina Maryla Glodek Glodek is correct. Galileo's low-power telescope did not allow him to see Saturn with enough resolution to define the rings. All he could see was something each side of the planet, and he never found out what they w...ere.
      There is evidence that Galileo saw Neptune on 28 December 1612, when it was in conjunction with Jupiter, without realising what it was. Once again, his little telescope lacked the power to clearly see the planet.      See More
      August 4, 2010 at 11:32pm
    • Ralph Metcalf if Galileo could see Saturn today with high powered telescopes to the Hubble and the space craft sent there he surely would be amazed!
      August 10, 2010 at 2:43pm
    • Amber Ghias beautiful!!!!....
      August 29, 2010 at 9:53am
    • Gary Mertens Great picture.
      September 21, 2010 at 8:40am
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