He thought of and supported the heliocentric model, which states the "heavens" revolve around the Sun.
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Copernicus published an alternative model of the planets' movement in 1543 that had the Sun at the centre. It was the first heliocentric model. It used orbits based on combinations of circles, as the ancient Ptolemaic system had done, which was geocentric. In Copernicus's model the paths followed by the planets were less complicated, but other than that Copernicus had no way of proving if it was right or not at that time, so it isn't known whether he believed in it.
Copernicus suggested a heliocentric model of the universe. Meaning, the earth was the centre of the universe and other planets had to orbit around the earth. This model of the universe was against Ptolemy's model of a geocentric model; a stationary Earth at the centre of the universe.
Copernicus used perfect circles for the orbits of the planets.
It goes against the ideas of the church
no people did not belive that Copernicus model was correct. he thought that the moon revolves (turns) around the earth and the people thought something else (don't know sorry)