Since the dawn of time humans have looked up at the night sky to watch the stars.

And then nothing happened for hundreds of thousands of years until a guy by the name of Galileo Gallet,

pointed a telescope at the stars, and saw a bunch of stuff that everyone had missed.

Since then we've been increasing the size of our telescope so we can see more and more further

and further away.

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On January 7th, 1610, Galileo picked up a telescope and pointed it at the planet Jupiter.

It marked a major turning point in human history.

This was the moment when astronomy was separated from astrology.

Prior to this moment, humans were more concerned with grouping together specs of light and following their path in the sky than they were with trying to figure out with

with grouping together specs of light and following their path in the sky,

then they were with trying to figure out what those specs of light were.

In fact, most people never really bothered to think that those specs of light

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