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 ...

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 ...

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.

Brian says that when Galileo put his telescope on Jupiter ... of having the youngest ever person to name it - an 11 year old girl from Oxford called Venetia Burney suggested the name to her ...

Dust off your old telescope on a clear night and look up ... around the Solar System’s largest planet. Discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, Io, Callisto, Europa and Ganymede are proving ...