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The first telescope was created by Galileo Galilei and could only magnify what was visible to the human eye.
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A man by the name of Johannes Hevelius created a telescope that receives and focuses the light which is then viewed through the second piece of glass. It was 150 feet long.
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A ma by the name of Sir William Herschel discovered Uranus through a hand-made refracting telescope.
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A man by the name John William Draper used the daguerreotype process to create a picture of the moon.
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The US Naval Observatory sent 8 expeditions around the world to the transit of Venus. They took 1700 photos together.
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Yerkes Observatory created a 40 inch telescope that to this day, is one of the largest refracting telescopes!
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A 100 foot telescope was made and Edwin Hubble then determined the Nebula is beyond the Milky Way.
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Pluto was discovered by a man named Clyde Tombaugh. Pluto is the outermost and smallest planet of the Milky Way.
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California is home to the 200 inch Hale reflecting telescope that has been making cutting edge discoveries ever since it was built. Some of these discoveries are whole new galaxies.
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The Hubble telescope was lifted into orbit and ever since has been making unparallelled discoveries and images. The telescope has had many fixes and improvements since it takeoff.
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The twin-mirrored huge Binocular Telescope was used for the first time in Arizona. This telescope delivers images ten times better than the Hubble Space Telescope.
