Cosmic Exploration · discovery

The Rings of Saturn

1655 · Christiaan Huygens

Description
Galileo saw 'ears' and could not resolve them. Huygens, with a better lens, worked out it was a flat ring touching the planet nowhere.
Year
1655

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