Telescope refractor

History of the Telescope

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  • Hans Lippershey Invents Telescope

    Hans Lippershey Invents Telescope

  • Galileo Builds Telescope

    Galileo Builds Telescope
    Galileo Galilei bulds the first telescope, and looks into the night sky. Discovers 4 of Jupiters moons, sees craters in our moon, and sees the milky way

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    Isaac Newton builds telescope with morrors instead of glass,first functional telescope

  • Wlliam Herschel Discovers Uranus

    Wlliam Herschel Discovers Uranus

  • Yerkes Observatory

    Yerkes Observatory
    Using mirrors brought back, becuase lense could be much bigger

  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble
    Discovers universe goes beyond the milky way and is expanding.

  • Background radiation

    Background radiation
    Penzius and Wilson accidentaly discover cosmic background raiation, confirming the big bang

  • Hubble Telescope in Orbit

    Hubble Telescope in Orbit

  • WMAP

    WMAP
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe used to measure cosmic background radiaton

  • Kepler telescope

    Kepler telescope
    NASA launches Kepler telescope, to search for inhabitable planets.