The next time Saturn comes around, take a look even through a cheap telescope.
It will still be just a little, cream colored round ball....but you will say, "Yep....those sure are rings around it."
Blew my mind when I first saw it and it was made real.
Church officials didn't have time to look at the defects introduced by Galileo's telescope.
These days we call those "defects" the Galilean satelites. The first direct proof that not everything revolves around us...