Outer space has fascinated people from the very first time a human being gazed upon the night sky and wondered what the beams of light in the sky were and what they meant. The moon has particularly captivated people throughout human history, with ancient people creating gods and goddesses to explain the various phases of the moon and the moon's tendency to turn blood-red and block out the sun. It was not until the year 1610 that the prolific astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, proving that some other planets also had moons in their orbit.

Four centuries after Galileo Galilei made this game-changing discovery, astronomers have discovered dozens of moons throughout the solar system, with Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all having moons of thei

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