One of the "nails in the coffin" for the Earth-centered universe was
A) the retrograde motion of the planets.
B) the phases of the Moon.
C) eclipses of the Sun.
D) Galileo's observation of stars in the Milky Way.
E) Galileo's observations of the moons of Jupiter.

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Galileo's observations of the moons of Jupiter provided evidence that not everything orbits the Earth, supporting the heliocentric model.

One of the "Nails in the Coffin" for the Earth-Centered