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 ...

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.

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 James Webb Space Telescope is just the latest apparatus in our human exploration toolkit. Moreover, unlike the narrow parameters of Galileo and the groundbreakers of the past, today’s world ...

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 ...

In his 2006 book, Galileo’s Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy, Biagioli chronicles how Galileo, then a 46-year-old professor ... Even a small telescope or a good pair of ...

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 ...