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Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei invented the refractor telescope. There wasn't an exact date but there was a year. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler improved the refractor by changing the eye piece to give a clearer and wider view. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton needed to make a better telescope because the refractors were getting out of hand. -
Lord Rosse
Lord Rosse and some other men were assembled to make a large reflector telescope to study nebuli. -
Tyson Yerkes
Tyson Yerkes funded the new and improved telescope and made it the biggest one in the world. -
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale wanted to study the sun so he made a spectroheliograph which takes pictures of the sun with out you needing to be looking right at the sun. -
George W. Ritchey
George W. Ritchey was making reflector telescopes but then he made one that takes pictures of that he is looking at. -
Karl Jansky
Karl Jansky discovered radio waves coming from space and made a radio wave telescope. This sends radio waves out and they bounce off the planets and come back. -
the U.S.A
It is unclear who invented it but this reflection telescope was invented with 6 small mirrors instead of 1 big one. -
Edwin Hubble
The Hubble telescope is a reflector telescope and it orbits Earth at 375 miles above the surface.
