astronomy timeline

By justinfuller

  • Hans Lippershey Creates the First Telescope

    Hans Lippershey Creates the First Telescope
    This is important to the advances of Science because Lippershey was the first person to discover planets other than Earth. Another reason that he is important is because he also found out that the Earth wasn't the center of the universe.

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    This man helped the telescope advance because he figured out that the lens in a telescope refracts light,causing it to have a less clear picture. He solved this problem by using mirrors instead of lenses.

  • Giovanni Cassini

    Giovanni Cassini
    In 1675, Giovanni Cassini discoverd that the planet Saturn had rings. He noticed that the rings were composed of ice and rock, the materials from moons and meteorites.

  • William Herschel

    William Herschel
    William Herschel is important to the contributions to the telescope because he found out that the wider the mirror on the telescope, the better the picture. He also discovered Uranus and Nebulae.

  • George Hale

    George Hale
    George Hale is important to the advancing of the telescope because he created the biggest mirror lens telescope at the time. He also discovered, with the telescope, that sunspots were magnetic.

  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble
    Edwin Hubble helped the advances of the telescope because he discovered that the nebuli in the sky that he was looking at were other galaxies. He also discovered that the galaxies are moving apart.

  • Mount Wilson Observatory

    Mount Wilson Observatory
    It contained the world's largest aperture telescope from its completion in 1929. Nebulae were discovered with this telescope.

  • Pienzias and Wilson

    Pienzias and Wilson
    Pienzias and Wilson are important because with their telescope, they accidentally discovered the "Cosmic Background Radiation" that was left over from the Big Bang.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope
    This telescope is important to the advancing of the telescope because it produced some of the most detailed pictures of space ever. It accurately determined the rate of expansion of the universe.

  • WMAP

    WMAP
    WMAP was a spacecraft that measured the Cosmic Background Radiation leftover from the Big Bang. It also played a major role in establishing the current Standard Model of Cosmology.