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galileo made his first telescope in 1609
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Hans Lippershay was inventor of the telescope
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Newton invented this telescope to study optics, not to observe the sky.
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John Herschel invented the actinometer in 1825 to determines the number of photons in a light beam
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The Mount Wilson Observatory first opened in Los Angeles, they have 60-100 inch telescopes
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George E Hale invented the spectrohelioscope; type of solar telescope. Was invented to allow the sun to be viewed in a selected wavelength of light.
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Edwin discovered the 1373 Cincinnati. He discovered it on August 30, 1935
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Penzias and Wilson discovered cosmic microwave radiation
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation
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Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was built to measure differences across the sky in temperature cosmic microwave background. The radiant heat from the Big Bang.
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Kepler Telescope is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. Launched on March 7, 2009
