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Hans Lippershey Creates Telescope
Lippershey creates first telescope in 1608. He was a dutch eyeglass maker who created the first magnified glass telescope to have 3 times the magnification. He invented a concaved eyepiece with a convex lens. -
Galileo's Telescope
Galileo invented another form of a telescope in 1608. He also discovered that the planets revolve around the sun, not Earth, and that each planet has its own moons. -
Newton's Discoveries
Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity, the force on an object. By this, he found out how the laws of motion (law of inertia, law of velocity and acceleraton, and the law that states that every action has an opposite reaction). -
William Herschel
SIr William Herschel discovered Uranus and all of the moons around the outer planets in 1781. He also discovered infrared light in 1800. -
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson Observatory is a 100-inch telescope based in Los Angeles, California. This observatory is open to both astronomers and the public, and has tours for the public. The best discovery is finding the Andromeda Galaxy in the 1920s. -
Hale
George Hale was an American scientist who discovered a lot about magnetic fields in sunspots. He studied mathematics, chemistry, and physics. He also created three observatories in his life, and created/discovered the spectrohelioscope. -
Penzius and Wilson
Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson discovered cosmic background radiation accidentally in 1964. They found out that after the Big Bang, there was still left over radiation and dust from the explosion. -
Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, and is still currently in space. It has captured a lot of our well known space photos. The Telescope has an 8-foot wide focusing mirror. -
Hubble Telescope
The Hubble Telescope was built and launched on April 24th, 1990. The point of lauching the telescope was to find other Earth-like planets and sun-like stars to find other planets in the habitable zone, which could have life. There are many images sent from the telescope of outer space, of other planets, galaxies, stars, and much more. This telescope still remains in orbit. -
WMAP
WMAP stands for the Wilkinson Microwave Anistrophy Probe. The probe was a spacecraft created in 2001 and worked until 2010. The WMAP measured temperatures across the sky. -
Kepler Telescope
The Kepler Telescope was named after Johannes Kepler, and was launched on March 7, 2009. The point of launching this telescope was to find other planets orbiting stars in similarity to Earth and our galaxy. This telescope still remains in orbit.