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Did Galileo help us understand Saturn

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yes he did help us understand Saturn! he used really old versions of microscopes to see all the way through space:)
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Yes, he used a telescope in 1610 and saw Saturn along with two "ears"(moons) around the planet, but a little while later he looked at it again and the moons were gone because of Saturn's angle.
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