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Telescope Discoveries

By Lucas_lesser

  • Hans Lipershey invents the telescope

    Hans Lipershey invents the telescope
    A Dutch eyeglass maker named Hans Lipershey is credited with inventing the telescope.

  • Galileo studies the things in the sky

    Galileo studies the things in the sky
    Galileo was the first to use a telescope. He found the moons of Jupiter, he found that Venus went through phases like the moon, and he noticed that there were craters on the moon.

  • Newton discovers spectrum

    Newton discovers spectrum
    Newton finds that white light is full of many colors, joining to make the spectrum. He is the first to understand the rainbow.

  • William Herschel discovers Uranus

    William Herschel discovers Uranus
    In the course of an observation on 13 March, 1781 William Herschel realized that one celestial body he had observed was not a star, but a planet, Uranus.

  • George Hale helps to make a large telescope.

    George Hale helps to make a large telescope.
    George Hale had several telescopes named after him in his respects to help create the base ideas. Largest is the Hale Telescope, the 200-inch telescope located in California at the Palomar Observatory.

  • "Hubble's Law"

    "Hubble's Law"
    Hubble does research to find out the velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the universe is expanding, known as "Hubble's law".

  • Penzius and Wilson

    Penzius and Wilson
    In 1964, Penzius and Wilson were experimenting with the Holmdel Horn Antenna when they discovered a hot background radiation that they called "Comic Background Radiation". It was a major key for the "Big Bang Theory".

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope
    The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 with a 2.4 meter mirror, and remains in operation to this day. Named after famous astronomer Edwin Hubble.

  • Mount Wilson Observatory

    Mount Wilson Observatory
    The observatory contains two historically important telescopes: the Hooker telescope, which was the largest aperture telescope in the world from its completion in 1917 to 1949, and the 60-inch Hale telescope which was the largest telescope in the world when it was completed in 1908.

  • Kepler Telescope

    Kepler Telescope
    The Kepler Telescope was launched in 2009 to discover earth-like planets orbiting other stars. It was named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler.