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Thursday, January 1, 2009

International Year Of Astronomy - 01JAN2009









January 1, 2009

Today marks the start of the International Year of Astronomy. It celebrates the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first use of the telescope as an astronomical instrument. Galileo's discoveries helped confirm that Earth is not the center of the universe.

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