Sidereus Nuncius (usually
Sidereal Messenger, also
Starry Messenger or
Sidereal Message) is a short
astronomical treatise (or
pamphlet) published in
New Latin by
Galileo Galilei on March 13th, 1610. It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a
telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the imperfect and mountainous
Moon, the hundreds of
stars that were unable to be seen in either the
Milky Way or certain
constellations with the naked eye, and the
Medicean Stars that appeared to be circling
Jupiter.