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In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet (the third outward from the Sun), and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth, not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead the Earth is assumed to rotate once in 24 hours, causing the stars to appear to revolve around the Earth in the opposite direction.

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He was the first to observe the moons of Jupiter, proving that there were objects that did not move with the Earth at the center.

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Q: What is Galileo's contribution to the heliocentric model of the solar system?
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