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The big one for the Earth, of course, which everybody sees. But Galileo was the first known person to see the four "galilean" moons of Jupiter; Europa, Callisto, Ganymede and Io. There are another 60 or so moons of Jupiter, but they are all much smaller; far too small to be seen in Galileo's early telescope!

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