• The oldest observatory building still standing is in Greece. It was built in about 100 b.c
• Anaxagoras, an early Greek philosopher, was banished for saying the sun was a red-hot stone.
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• In 280 bc the Greek astronomer Aristarchus said the sun. Not Earth, was the centre of the solar system. It was more than 1800 years before he was proved right.
• in 1609, Galileo made one of the first drawings of the moon's surface.
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