Galileo Sees the Light, Again

The Milky Way was a mystery in Galileo's time. Greek mythology proposed that the band of clouds in the night sky was a remnant of Hera's breast milk strewn in an arc above the northern horizon (hence the "Milky" Way). When Galileo looked at our galaxy with his telescope he could easily see points of light that could only be too far away to have a parallax shift. Why would God create objects that humans couldn't resolve with their own eyes? Once again he was baffled by what he saw, and yet he saw the light.