- Article / video
- 7 pages
- Level: all audiences
This article by Guy Consolmagno and Christopher Graney of the Vatican Observatory, published in Sky & Telescope magazine (October 2022), discusses how astronomers figured out that the moons of Jupiter contained ice. Fr. Angelo Secchi, S.J., the pioneering nineteenth-century astrophysicist, features prominently in the article.
The complete article is available from Sky & Telescope (click here) and through many libraries via EBSCOhost.
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