saturn
Saturn has been known since ancient times because it is visible to the naked eye. Its rings were first observed by Galileo in 1610, and its large moon Titan was discovered by Christiaan Huygens in 1655.
We can look for it by using these tecniqes. •Seeing it in rocks (meteorites) •Seeing it gravitationally •Seeing it spectroscopically (remote sensing) •Seeing morphological features of it (remote sensing) •Seeing it (remote sensing)
Galileo had a theory, it was that the earth was NOT in the centre of the solar system like everyone thought, he made the first telescope and proved everyone wrong by looking into space and seeing that the sun was in the centre of the solar system, not the earth, doing this he also invented the telescope.
Probably, but impossible to tell as we are only just seeing planets within our own galaxy.
Usually during the night.
Saturn has been known since ancient times because it is visible to the naked eye. Its rings were first observed by Galileo in 1610, and its large moon Titan was discovered by Christiaan Huygens in 1655.
Galileo Galilei first recorded seeing three "stars" in 1610 January, and thought they were simply fixed stars behind Jupiter. Later that year he observed a fourth star, and also concluded that they were orbiting Jupiter.
Currently no planet other than Earth is known to harbor life. Even then, the planets outside our solar system are so distant that we would have no way of seeing what that life looked like.
In 1610, when Galileo turned his newly constructed Telescope (as powerful as today's binoculars) towards Saturn, he was mystified when he noticed "Ears" on Saturn's "face". What he was seeing, of course, were Saturn's rings, but nobody ever having seen rings around a planet before, and not having good enough telescopes for at least 50 more years, he simply could not comprehend what he was looking at. He (only slightly) more rationally decided that the lobes were an illusion - that Saturn had two huge moons orbiting it (he had recently discovered Jupiter's four big moons). However, 2 years later, as Saturn turned so that Earth was edge on to the rings, they vanished from view. The rings are exquisitely thin compared with their huge diameter. He thought Saturn had "swallowed" his children. The rings returned, of course, which baffled him further. Poor Galileo. He went to his grave thinking Saturn was a "crazy planet"
We can look for it by using these tecniqes. •Seeing it in rocks (meteorites) •Seeing it gravitationally •Seeing it spectroscopically (remote sensing) •Seeing morphological features of it (remote sensing) •Seeing it (remote sensing)
Galileo had a theory, it was that the earth was NOT in the centre of the solar system like everyone thought, he made the first telescope and proved everyone wrong by looking into space and seeing that the sun was in the centre of the solar system, not the earth, doing this he also invented the telescope.
There are two basic ways to locate a planet orbiting another star.The first is by detecting the slight wobble of the star that is created by the gravitational pull of the planet as it orbits the star. This type of test is better at locating large planets that are close to their parent star seeing as how planets invariably have much less mass, and therefore have very little affect on the star itself. The second method is to simply look at the light coming directly from the star and wait for it to dim. This happens when an orbiting planet passes between the star and earth, essentially creating an "eclipse" type effect.
Probably, but impossible to tell as we are only just seeing planets within our own galaxy.
pretty awful seeing how its frying the planet
seeing as every planet does, I would think so.
Usually during the night.
He was the first to see Jupiter's four largest moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Europa and Io.These four are now called the Galilean moons in his honor.