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Hans Lippershay invented the first ever telescope.
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Galileo made a telescope that could see further than anything else that had been created. With this, Galileo found the planet Jupiter.
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Issac created a telescope that had a clearer mirror and also got rid of any distortion of light.
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Johannas Hevelius devolped a 150 refracted foot long telescope. It hung by ropes and poles and it moved every time wind went against it.
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William Hershel discovered the planet Uranus with a small hand-made reflecting telescope. 8 years later he supported a creatioj of a 40 foot long telescope. That ended up being anticlimatic.
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An observatory was put on top of mount wilson to get clearer images of space without disrupting from pollution.
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Edwin Hubble used the observatory to see that there is red shifted light from other galaxies. This was major evidence that helps support the big bang.
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Penzius and Wilson made a telescope that measures radio and microwaves. This is when they found cosmic background radiation which is the first physical piece of evidence of the big bang.
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The hubble space telescope was sent into space to see things we have not seen yet. It did just that.
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The Kepler telescope was send into space to see if there are any other habitable planets like Earth in other galaxies.
