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Hans Lippershey invented telescope
Credited in 1608 with the first record of the invention of the telescope, but the existance of a physical model is unknown. -
Galileo discovers the moon is... a moon
Galileo turns his newly 20x magnified telescope to the skies and realizes the moon is not the smooth, godly sphere in the sky, but a roughly geographically carved planet of sorts, which led to a domino affect of astronomers making new discoveries threw many millenia. -
Galileo discovers stars orbiting Jupiter are moons.
Galileo, shortly after discovering the existance of other forms in the universe, turns his telescope to Jupiter, where he spies four bright stars which he concludes ar moons. -
Isaac Newton invents reflecting telescope
Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668, The idea was not original at the time, as Galileo and other astronomers had created individual designs, but Isaac had constructed the first functioning one. -
Herschel discovers Uranus
Herschel points his telescope to the sky and sees one large celestial body, but upon further inspection it turns out to be a planet, not a star. The naming of the planet is a long and drawn out story, as well as the pronounciation of the end result, but all in all it's worth mentioning because one of the options was "King George", which would be an entertaining aspect in today's educations; children everywhere learning the eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, KING GEORGE! -
Edwim Hubble Mount Wilson Observatory
Finished in 1917, Hubble created this observatory in order to monitor and explore the universe, particularly our universe, without the obstruction of the clouds and human life below, so it was built on Mount Wilson. -
Penzias and Wilson
Using the Holmdel Horn Antenna, Penzias and Wilson discovered that throughout the entire universe was radiation leftover by the big bang. The won the Nobel prize a few years later after the ground breaking discovery. -
Hubble space telescope
aunched into earth in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed and resilient images of the univese outside out galaxy, pushing us further towards understanding the complexity of our universe. -
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotorpy Probe
Lainched in 2001 in order to make accurate measurments in cosmology to get an understanding of the universe and it's contents as a whole. -
Kepler spacecraft
Launched by Nasa in 2009, Kepler has discovered hundreds, possibly thousand of new terrestrial and gas planets in the universe within just a few years.
