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Galileo
Galileo builds and puts to use the first telescope. The telescope was used to view the moons of Jupitar also he viewed he viewed the rings of Saturn. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of Relativity. This theory shows that the speed of light is the fastest that any object can travel in the universe. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
Edwin Hubble
Edwin Hubble uses a 100 inch telescope to view galaxies beyond our own. He observes that the farther a galaxie is the more red that galaxie is. As the galaxie turns more red the faster that galaxie is moving away from us. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
Georges lemaitre
Georges Lemaitre believes that the universe began by an explosion from an atom. The exsplosion caused debris to fly out it to space. To this day day the debris is still flying in space and will always be flying out. (Hand From Class) -
Quasars discovered
Allan Sandage and Thomas Matthew discover radio energy called Quasi Stellar radio sources. Maatren Schmidt in later years dicovered that the radio sources lie at the edge of the universe. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
Microwave background rdiation
Two scientists discovered that the Earth was being constently exsposed to radiation all around. The scientists discovered that the radiation was microwave radiation the came from the big bang.http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
Pulsars Discovered
Jocelyn Bell and Anothny Hewish discover radio energy called pulsars. Pulsras were examples of neutron stars, the form from supernovea. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
SuperNova 1987A
Light from from supernova 1987A reaches the earth. The light from the nova helped scientist explain the progress of an explosion. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm -
COBE
COBE or Cosmeic Background Explore is used for measuring cosmic background radiation. The COBE can map cosmic microwave background radiation, and can compare the spectrum of cosmic microwave background radiation. http://aether.lbl.gov/www/projects/cobe/ -
Confirmation of the Big Bang
Astronomers make a spectrum of the Microwave background radiation. The spectrum shows the same agreement with the big bang theory. http://www.strangemusic.com/BBTL.htm