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Hans Lippershey
In this year Hans Lippershey issues a patent for the invention of the telescope. His refracting telescope uses lenses and is mostly used for millitary purposes. His invention is new and innovative and will create a pathway for newer and improved telescopes. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo uses a two lensed telescope (previously used for military purposes) to look up into the night sky. He finds that the moon is infact not a perfect spere and is heavily cratered. He also sees that Venus revolves around the sun leading him to the conclusion that the Earth revolves around the sun. -
Sir Issac Newton
Issac Newton re-invents the telescope by using mirrors instead of lenses. His new telescope allows him to see farther and clearer into space while also eliminating color distortion. -
William Hershel
In this year Willian Hershel created a larger reflecting telescope withe a bigger mirror. This telescope could take in more light which allowed him to see farther than before. After nine years of star gazzing he discovers Uranus, discoved that nebulae are clusters of stars. He also maps out more of the milky way than previously recorded. -
Mount Wilson Observatory.
In an attempt to lessen Earth atmosperic effect on the clearity of telescopes, astronomers built a revolutionary telescopes to allow humans to see farther than ever before.The site was founded by George Hail and housed two revolutionary telescopes The Hooker Telescope and The Hale Telescope. -
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubbles started his astronomy career at The Mount Wilson Observatory using the world's most powerful telescope at the time. Edwin discovered other galaxies in our universe and also discovered that the universe is expanding. -
Penzius and Wilson
Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson mistakenly discovered The CMB or Cosmic Background Radiation. Using The Big Horn Antena the two men looked into the sky for radio waves in between galaxies. To their suprise they found microwaves all acroos the sky meaning that they discovered the leftover energy from the Big Bang. -
The Hubble Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is out of this world. Well orbiting it at least. With no atmospheic distortion the HST has been able to take the most detiled light pictures ever, allowing a deep view of space.The HST is also credited with giving the speed that our universe is expanding at. -
WMAP
The WMAP looks at cosmic background radiation left over from the big bang.The probe has been able to tell us the age of the universe to a half of a percent, mapped a sky map of the microwave sky, and has found that the universe is made up of 4.6% ordinary atoms, 24% dark matter, and 71.4% dark energy. -
Kepler Telescope
The Kepler Telecope is designed to look for earth like planets in our universe. To this videos date 420 planets have been found but non have been very similar to Earth. But the search continues to go on with new planets being found everyday.
