Daily Archives: February 12th, 2011
On the Discovery of Another Exoplanet
Galileo constructed his astronomical spy-glasses on 1609. The following year, he discovered satellites of Jupiter: tiny specks moving around the bright surface of the huge planet. Not even by a daunting stretch of imagination could he have surmised that exactly 400 years later – in 2009- there would be a sophisticated telescope launch by humans …
