Happy Birthday
Location: Kolkata Posted on: 2/15/2026 4:38:54 PM
February 15, 1564.
On this day, a child was born who would change the way humanity sees the universe forever.
Galileo Galilei was the first to turn a telescope toward the sky and truly look — discovering mountains on the Moon, the phases of Venus, and the moons of Jupiter. In doing so, he helped prove a powerful and unsettling truth: Earth is not the center of everything.
At a time when questioning the cosmos meant risking everything, Galileo chose curiosity over fear.
Every image of distant planets, every rover on Mars, every deep-space discovery we celebrate today traces back to that first brave decision to look up and ask, “What if we’re not at the center?”
Happy birthday to the father of modern astronomy.
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