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873 words, approx. 3 pages The principle of the telescope was first developed by a Dutch spectacle-maker, Hans Lippershey (1570-1619). He used his first telescope, made in 1608, for observing grounded objects from a distance, rather than astronomy. His invention was not openly...
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806 words, approx. 3 pages The telescope is a device that intensifies and magnifies the image of distant objects. The telescope enables astronomers, scientists, and amateurs alike, to observe and study planets, stars, galaxies, and other features of the universe. The observation...
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Telescopes Summary
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 Astronomical observation has its roots in antiquity. Ever since the citizens of ancient Babylonia, China, Egypt, and Greece designed crude wood tools to measure the movement of the stars and planets across the heavens, humankind has been improving those...
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 A telescope is an instrument designed for the observation of remote objects and the collection of electromagnetic radiation. The earliest known telescopes are credited to three individuals, Hans Lippershey and Zacharias Janssen, spectacle-makers in...




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Canary Island telescope to search skies
7/13/2007: 383 words, approx. 1 pages One of the world's most powerful telescopes will be trained on the skies on Friday, searching for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.Perched 2,400 meters up on the Roque de los Muchachos peak in the Atlantic island...
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Giant telescope to start watching skies
7/13/2007: 359 words, approx. 1 pages One of the world's most powerful telescopes began spying on the universe on Friday, using its 34-foot wide mirror to search for planets similar to our own from a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands.Perched atop a 7,800 foot peak on the Atlantic island...
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Cuts threaten world's largest telescope
6/1/2007: 346 words, approx. 1 pages Engineers will travel to this Puerto Rican coastal town in coming weeks to study whether to shut down the world's largest radio telescope, which was featured in the movie "Contact" but now faces steep budget cuts, observatory officials said Thursday.Opened in 1963, the Arecibo telescope,...
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Giant telescope begins work in Spain
7/14/2007: 498 words, approx. 2 pages The Great Canary Telescope, one of the world's largest and most powerful, opened its shutters, turned its vast 34-foot-wide mirror toward the skies and captured its first light at a mountaintop on one of Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday.The $179 million telescope, designed to take...


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