Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly closely associated with the night sky, but it's also useful on land and ...

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.

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season, or perhaps you’ve gifted yourself with a scope. I want you to get ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

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 ...

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.

The Webb is just the latest example of how humanity's view of the cosmos has been expanding steadily with each new seeing tool, beginning when Galileo first turned a telescope on the skies in 1609.

Let’s face it, the technology is hardly new because binoculars or field glasses have been around ever since Galileo first invented the telescope. Soon people were using two telescopes lashed ...