Galileo Galilei was peering through a new telescope in 1610 when he noticed something strange: several bright objects flickering around the planet Jupiter that seemed to change positions nightly.
"It was pretty gut-wrenching when we first learned our Galileo was not actually a Galileo," Donna L. Hayward, the interim dean of the university's libraries, said in an interview.
Nasa shares mesmerizing picture of a meteor wind over Tunisia
Surprisingly, these meteor showers that light up the sky are the destroyed ones. However, their streaks can be traced back to a single point on the sky known as the radiant.
Last week, the Perseids meteor shower lit up the northern sky. It was one of the best meteor showers that appeared from mid-July to late August every year. According to NASA,
Nasa discovers a new moon
The new moon was detected 200 kilometres away from Polymele and is roughly five kilometres in diameter, approximately one third of its Trojan host.
Lucy itself, which takes its name from a fossilised human ancestor, is only 14 metres from tip to tip in size - most of which is huge solar panels used to power the spacecraft.
Army of the Alien Monkeys
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