Multiple choice

Who discovered the ring of Saturn?

  1. Copernicus

  2. Galileo

  3. Kepler

  4. Newton

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Explanation

Galileo Galilei was the first to observe Saturn's rings through a telescope in 1610, though he initially described them as "appendages." It was later in 1655 that Christiaan Huygens correctly identified them as a ring system.

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