Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo—Earth's atmosphere. Shifting air pockets in the atmosphere ...

Thus was born the study of optics. In 1609, about a year after an unknown author made the very first attempt to patent a telescope, Galileo Galilei designed and built his famous instrument ...

Near the beginning of the play, Galileo introduces his daughter to a telescope. "It's a miracle," she exclaims on looking ...

Second, you soon want a bigger telescope. Galileo, who first trained a telescope on the night sky 400 years ago this fall, pioneered this two-step program. First, he marveled at what he could see.

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

2. Shared by NASA, the image showcases a close-up view of an astronaut's bootprint in the lunar soil during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon. 3. Shown as a crown of white flares ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics.

Our fascination with alien life took off after Galileo’s new telescope allowed us to look up close at the heavens in the early 17th Century. Dark patches spotted on the Moon were assumed to be ...