Who discovered Saturn?Who learned Saturn? Did the ancients know this planet or is modern science its first analyst? To be honest, in the ancient times people were better informed on the movement of the stars than we are today, and the presence of Saturn must have been noticed even with primitive telescopes. In fact, Galileo is recognized as the scientist who learned Saturn in 1610, since in his descriptions he even gave an explanation for the rings. What he saw resembled some small ears on either side of the planet, and he presumed they were globes. Yet, later on, the white rings were learned and have remained the most spectacular solar system formation ever since. The analysis of the globes given by Galileo came into discussion because of a confusion he didn’t know how to know. He was the person who learned Saturn, but at the same time he thought there were three planets, not one. The mystery of the rings was clarified in 1655 when Christiaan Huygens realized that what Galileo called globes were really rings, but their structure became apparent twenty years later with the discovery made by Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He was the one to launch the theory that Saturn’s rings were broken or discontinuous, consisting of small individual parts. Presently we know that the rings consist of ice, rocks and other interplanetary remains, which only contributes to underlying the truth of the early theories. Who learned Saturn then? A honest conclusion is that this part of our solar system gradually revealed itself to our eyes, but the discovery is not by far complete. Every year seems to bring something new for us to learn: thus, more than forty of Saturn’s moons have become known, some of them with potential conditions to sustain life. Thus the question is not about who learned Saturn, but what is there more to learn? Galileo as the person who learned Saturn deserves all our respect and consideration, but he is not the only one. The spacecraft which captured the first pictures from Saturn was called Cassini after the astronomer who understood and theorized the structure of the rings around this planet. Even so, there are many other people who are currently taking part to space exploration projects; maybe their names are not written in history, but their contribution is just as fantastic and vital. With every space conquest, there is one other step in the direction of learning more about the universe. |
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