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History of Hubble Space Telescope

History of Hubble Space Telescope The history of the Hubble Space Telescope can be traced back to as far as 1946 when astronomer Lyman Spitzer wrote a paper entitled “Astronomical Advantages of an Extra-Terrestrial Observatory”. In the paper, he discussed two main advantages that a space-based observatory would have over ground-based telescopes. First, the angular […]

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History of the Telescope

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History of the Telescope The history of the telescope dates back to the early 1600’s when an Italian mathematician named Galileo Galilei peered through an odd new device he had invented to look at the stars in the night sky. Suddenly, this well known and familiar place revealed itself as a barely exposed mystery. It

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