Sidereus Nuncius is a short astronomical treatise (or pamphlet) published in New Latin by Galileo in 1610. It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the Moon, the hundreds of stars that were unable to be seen in either the Milky Way or certain constellations with the naked eye, and the Medicean Stars that appeared to be circling Jupiter.

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Galileo Galilei, Sidereus Nuncius, Moon, 1610

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