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  • Saturn's Rings: Who Discovered Them First? - Space Exploration
    That's a good guess, but it's not quite right. While Galileo did observe Saturn through his telescope in 1610, he didn't recognize them as rings.

    He described them as "ears" or "handles" on the planet, due to the limitations of his telescope. It wasn't until 1655 that Christiaan Huygens, using a more powerful telescope, correctly identified the features as a ring system surrounding Saturn.

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