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Hans Lippershey
Hans Lippershey was a lens maker and was credited for being the first person to create and disseminate the designs for the first practical telescope. -
Galileo Studies The Night Sky
Galileo was the first to use a telescope to study objects in the night sky. He discovered the moons of Jupiter. Which meant that everything in the universe did NOT revolve around the Earth. He had also discovered the Saturn, though he wasnt exactly sure what the rings were on Saturn. HE had thought they looked like ears, and that they could be two moons. -
Newton's Telescope
British mathmatician and physicist Issac Newton built a telescope in 1670 that used a mirror to gather and focus the incoming light unlike galileos device. -
Herschels 40 foot Telescope
It was constructed from 1785-1789 and was 40 feet in length. It was a reflecting Telescope in slough, England And William Herschel had discovered Uranus with it, along with two moons from saturns satellite and two of Uranus's Moon. -
Mount Wilson Observatory
The Mount Wilson Observatory is a astronomical observatory located in Los Angeles California. Its located in Mount Wilson, it contains two telescopes, the Hooker telescope and the Hale telescope. The observatory was founded by George ellery Hale. It was bulit on mount wilson because it had naturally steady hair and a more clear view to be ablke to look in space. -
Edwin Hubble
In October 1923, Edwin had spotted what he thought was a nova star in the Andromeda constellation. He the started examining the photographic plates of the of the same area that was taken by other astronomers and realized that it was actually a cepheid star. He then measures the Distance to the Cepheid. Which he placed as a million light years away, Very from our galaxy. And concluded that it was in fact a whole other galaxy! which expanded the size of our universe very dramatically. -
Red Shift
This shift was first observed my Edwin Hubble and has been known as Hubble's Law. He observed that the chracteristics colors, or spectral lines emitted by stars do not have exactly the same wavelengths. They are shifted to longer wavelengths and toward the red end of the specrum.Rec shift mean longer wavelengths and this contributesd to evidence of the big bang theory because the prescence of red shift mean galazies are moving away from each other. -
Hubble Space Telescope
NASA'S Hubble space telescope was launched April 24, 1990 on the space shuttle discovery from kennedy space center in florida. It is the first major optical telescope launched into space. It had captured one of the ,most high quality and clrar pictures of many objects in space, such as other galaxies. -
Robert And Penzias
On may 20th 1964, Radio astronmers Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered cosmic background radiation or (CMB) They picked up an odd noise that puzzled them and they finally predicted that it was the thermal eco of the echo of the universe's birth. It put the Big Bang theory on solid groubnd and helped suggets that the universe had grown from a single point about 13.77 b -
WMAP
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (or WMAP) is a NASA explorer mission that launched in June of 2001 to make measurements of cosmology. And it had made some pretty stunning success. It produced our new standard model of cosmology. It had determined the universe age, of 13.77 billion years old. It had also determined that dark energy made roughly 72% of our universe, causing the expansion rate of the universe to speed up.
