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

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Galileo's observations of the moons of Jupiter provided evidence of celestial bodies that did not orbit around Earth, but around another planet, which contradicted the idea of a geocentric universe.

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