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Seeing the Moon
Galileo peered through his telescope at night on November 30, 1609, he pointed his telescope towards the moon. What he saw astonished him, the moon was not a perfect sphere. Galileo realized and saw there were craters on the moon. -
Reflecting Telescope
In 1668, Sir Isaac Newton invented his reflecting telescope, also known as the Newtonian telescope. The telescope use at least one curved mirror to produce an image. -
Uranus
William Hershel, on March 13, 1781, discovered a new planet in our solar system. The planet Uranus. William Hershel built his own telescope and while he was scanning through the night sky, he noticed one of these "stars" were different. Later on he realized that this "star" orbited around the Sun, and that it was not a star at all. It was a planet. -
Map of the Milky Way
In 1785, William Hershel created a map of our galaxy, the Milky Way. He and his sister, Caroline Hershel, gazed up at the stars for a year and created a map of the Milky Way. In his map there are more than 2,500 nebulae! -
Mount Wilson Observatory
George Ellery Hale is the man that created the Mount Wilson Observatory on June 29, 1868. The observatory consist of multiple telescopes and was used by many universaties along with scientist. -
Edwin Hubble
In 1929, Edwin Hubble is the man responsible for providing scientific evidence for the discovery of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. Back then, people assumed they were nebulae, however one man proved them wrong. -
Penzius and Wilson
Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson, in 1964, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation. This discovery gave the Big Bang more scientific evidence to prove that it is the most logical explanation of how the universe was created. -
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24,1990. The Hubble Space Telescope can take images of the universe, galaxies, stars, supernovas, etc. and it sends it back here so we can gain more knowledge about our universe. The Hubble Space Telescope still remains in orbit today. -
WMAP
WMAP stands for Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The WMAP is a spacecraft that was operated by NASA from 2001 up to 2010. It was launched on June 30, 2001. Its purpose was to show astronomers the different temperatures in space. -
Kepler Telescope
The Kepler Telescope was launched on March 7, 2009 by NASA. The Kepler Telescope is a space observatory and its main purpose is to find Earth-like planets in our universe that orbit around stars, like the Earth does.
