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What are the properties of Jupiter's four largest Moons, the Galilean Moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?

Beneath an icy crust, Jupiter's moon Europa may have extensive oceans of water that rival Earth's. Did life develop there?

The largest of the planets, Jupiter is a stormy place surrounded by more than five dozen moons.

After the Caliphate, the nascent Church helped to spur the European economy, universities popped up everywhere, and the pursuit of science found new patronage.

With his telescope Galileo discovered craters on the Moon, spots on the Sun, Moons of Jupiter, phases of Venus, and stars in the Milky Way.

This August bring summer's best meteor shower and an opportunity to see mysterious clouds on the fringes of Earth's atmosphere.

February begins and ends with two great planetary conjunctions and hosts a total lunar eclipse in the middle.

A little larger than the planet Mercury, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has a significant nitrogen atmosphere but is cold enough for lakes of liquid methane.

Jupiter is a brilliant point of light in the south among the stars of Ophiuchus.