The Challenging History of New Worlds: How a revolutionary idea was born and gained acceptance despite a lack of solid scientific support.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL beings; HISTORY of astronomy; OUTER space; EUROPA (Satellite); TITAN (Satellite); EARTH'S orbit; SOLAR system

This article explores the history of the concept of life on other planets. It discusses how the idea originated with Copernicus and Bruno, who believed that planets could potentially support life. However, astronomers like Kepler argued against these ideas, pointing out that stars were not suns and that the Sun and its planets were unique. The article also highlights the limitations of early telescopes in accurately observing the size of stars, which contributed to misconceptions about their similarity to planets. It concludes by emphasizing that the assumption of a universe full of Earth-like worlds is not supported by scientific evidence. [Extracted from the article]

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