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Alternate Text: DIgital scans of historic drawings of sunspots by Galileo

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DIgital scans of historic drawings of sunspots by Galileo

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Digital scans of drawings by Galileo, showing sunspots he observed through a telescope on July 4 (left) and 5 (right), 1613. Images courtesy the Galileo Project.