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Hans Lippershy
Hans thought about how he wanted to see far things as if they were near, he came up with the idea of a telescope -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo used 2 pieces of glass to build his own telescope and made the discovery that there was four large moons aroung Jupiter. Later he then found that Venus orbits around the sun, thus coming to the conclusion that all planets orbit the sun. -
Sir Isaac Newton
He studied light using prisms. He redesigned the reflecting telescope. -
William Herschel
William Herschel built the first gigantic reflecting telescope and it was 12 metres long. He also discovered Uranus -
Mount Wilson Observatory
The observatory was founded by George Hale. This observatory contains some of the greatest telescopes including the Hooker telescope and the Hale telescope -
Edwin Hubble
Hubble found out that our galaxy isn't the only galaxy in the universe. He also found that objects are moving away from eachother so the universe is expanding and he named the turn red-shift. -
Wilson and Penzias
They discovered Cosmic Background Radiation which basically told them that the big band explosion has reminisced all over space -
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble telescope was lifted into space in April 1990. Since then, it has been recording our space in detail and finding new discoveries. -
WMAP
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy is a NASA explorer mission and is used to make fundamental measurements of comsology.
