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 ... as a search for "the old" (the universe's earliest ...

When he was 28 years old, Galileo became a professor ... but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove ...

The new evidence regarding Callisto comes from a somewhat surprising place: old data. NASA's Galileo mission, which launched into space in 1989, was designed to study Jupiter, its moons ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera ... This dual nature of the telescope dates back to its inception; after inventing his, Galileo wrote to the ruler of Venice about its ability ...

And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar ... a Venetian gentleman Sagredo (actually Galileo’s close friend of the old days) and a scientifically informed Florentine, Salvatio ...