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Hans Lippershay invented the first telescope. He was a glass maker and invented the telescope but did not for those purposes. He used it for eye glasses.
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Galileo was the first one to the use the telescope to look into the sky. Everyone in the time thought that the Earth was the center of the universe nut he proved everyone wrong. He found the planet of Jupiter and all it's orbiting moons.
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Newton made a 6 inch long telescope and puts aq 1 inch mirror init. He makes the first reflective telescope.
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Herschel was the first one to use large mirrorsto look beyond the planets. He discovered Uranus, the solar system and galaxy. He was the first one to identify the shape of the Milky Way.
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George Hale is known for his discovery of the magnetic fields in sunspots. He was also the lead panner in the building of telescopes at Mount Wilson Observatory, Palomar Observatory amd Yerkes.
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The Mount Wilson Observatory is located in Los Angeles, California. It contains two historically important telescope, the 100 inch Hooker telescope and the 60 inch Hale telescope. These two telescopes were both the world's largest at some point. The observaory was built by George Hale
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Hubble is known for providing evidence to prove that there are galaxies beyond the Milky Way. He also came up with the Hubble Laws, which shows that the universe is expanding. The Hubble Space Telescope was also named after him.
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Penzias and Wilson were the first two astronmers to discover cosmic background radiation. Cosmic Background Radiation is the leftover radiation is the leftover energy from the Big Bang .
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The Hubble Space Telescope was the telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit and still remains out there.It is used to obsevere infrared spectra.
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The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe was launched from 2001-2010 to measure differnces across the sky in the temperature of cosmic background radiation.
