the moons

A true colour mosaic of Jupiter taken by the Cassini probe

(NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute)

Scene 3 | Bertolt Brecht | LIFE OF GALILEO

translated by John Willett | Methuen | 1980/1986

Here we have Jupiter. Around it we have four smaller neighbouring stars that are invisible except through the tube. I saw them on Monday but without bothering to note their position. Yesterday I looked again. I could swear the position of all four had changed.