what is the significance of galileos discoveries of four moons orbitting jupiter in termsof future breakthrou?

Question

basically like why was it such a big deal?

can u please go into detail, and something other than proving that the solar system wasnt earth centered

Answer 1

I assume you are speaking about the Galileo space craft. As with any scientific discovery or theory, there may be no significance to normal life when first found, but later there mat help explain or lead to an answer of some sort. In the case of Galileo's information, it could lead to a better understanding of how planets and other objects in space are formed. Especially Europa which is thought to have a liquid water sea under the ice. This may lead to insights in how life was formed or how water is so abundant in the solar system.

If you are talking about Galileo the inventor/astronomer, then his discovery had great importance, such as it was the first conformation that everything does not obit the earth. Later the same moons were used to measure the speed of light. I could go on and on, but I hope this explains why it is important to keep discovering things even though they may not have an immediate purpose.

Answer 2

It was the first clear evidence that anything orbited a body other than the Earth. Many people at the time believed that Earth was the center of the universe and that the Sun, Moon, and all the planets and stars revolved around it. Galileo was a proponent of the then new and radical Copernican theory, which was heliocentric. He argued that the presence of moons orbiting Jupiter showed that Earth and Jupiter shared similar places in the cosmos, as planets orbiting the Sun, with moons orbiting around them. It also showed that the telescope could reveal celestial bodies invisible to the naked eye.

Answer 3

At that time, the prevailing point was that the planets, sun, moon, everything(!) revolved around the earth, which was the center of the universe.

So here comes Galileo, who, through his telescope, discovers that there are these four moons that revolve around Jupiter! This really disturbs people's thinking, because those moons should be revolving around US! And that starts to open the groundwork for discoveries to come, namely that the earth is NOT the center of the universe, but merely one planet revolving around the sun (and many years later we'd find out how NOT in the center of the universe THAT is, too!).

In reality, we aren't in the center, but the earth is perfectly placed in one of the rare locations where life can exist, sheltered off in the corner, not too hot, cold, or close to nasty supernovae or radiation.

Answer 4

This was the first real proof that there are objects in the solar system that *don't* orbit Earth. Up till then, no one knew that other planets could have moons.

Answer 5

Jupiter has 63 moons.Its strong gravity captures asteroids.

Answer 6

cause those moons were from the astroid belt, which showd Jupiters immense gravity