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Hans lippershey
Hans lippershey, a spectacle maker, is credited as the fisrt person to make the telescope -
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo updated the telescope and found out the there was terrain on the moon, he saw other planets. He also saw that Venus went around the sun, because of that he figured out that all planets revolve around the sun. -
Isaac newton
Isaac newton studied the reflection of light through prims, he also redisigned the reflector telescope but he couldnt get his blurry vision in his telescope because of the design so he didnt dicover anything -
Giovanni Cassini
Giovanni Cassini used the telesope to look at the planets as he was doin this he discoverd that the blur Isaac Newton was seeing in his telesope was the ring that go around saturn -
William Herschel
William herschel redesigned newtons telescope and made the 12 meter relfector, he discovered Uranus, he also tried to make a map of where certain stars were -
William Parsons(lord Rosse)
William parsons made lots of telescope but in 1842 he made the largest one ever built in that time, people would call it the Leviathan of Parsonstown -
Mount Wilson Observatory
During this time the Mount Wilson Observatory made the largest telescope, the Hooker telesope which had a 100 inch reflector mirror -
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble used the Hubble space telescope to discover the indromoden nebula, and that the distant cclouds of light were other galxies, showing people we werent the only galaxy in the universe -
Penzius and Wilson
Penzius and Wilson mad ethe Holmdel Horn Antenna which was a radio telesope, they discovered the energy of cosmic background radiation, the left over energy from the big bang which is everywhere in the universe -
Kepler Spacecraft
The Kepler spacecraft was a telescope launched into spce to discover other earth like planets,it was named after astronomer Johannes Kepler, it has also seen farther in space in any other telescope ever made
