Message #88344

[Bianca]

1576
May 23
Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory. [1]

1579
August 8
Cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory. [1]

1604
October 9
Supernova 1604 - the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way - is seen for the first time. [5] (October 8 [1])



1610
January 1
German astronomer Simon Marius first discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610. [1]

January 7
Galileo discovers first three Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede. [1]

January 13
Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, fourth satellite of Jupiter. [1]



1612
December 15
Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope. [1]

December 28
Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogues it as a fixed star. [5] (January 29, 1613 [1])



1625
June 8
Birth of Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovered four satellites of Saturn. [1]

1630
May 17
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, first to see two belts on Jupiter surface. [1]

1631
November 7
Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler. [1]

December 6
First predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed. [1]

1633
February 13
Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun. [1]