The sun was once personified as a god, a symbol of a perfect cosmos. The occasional detection of dark blemishes was ...

Here, Galileo took this crude device with ... to overcome the problem of chromatic aberration: the invention of the reflecting telescope described by James Gregory and built in a different form ...

Jupiter was a prime target of inventor and astronomer Galileo’s innovation, the telescope, in 1610. As he started tracking the movements of four little white dots around the planet, Galileo ...

The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his ... it left more than a thousand years before the invention of the telescope. The farther away an object in space lies ...

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented ... viewed through a latge telescope, it is seen to be ...

Galileo Galilei was an outstanding mathematician ... He quickly figured out the workings of the invention and built his own ...

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to have your minds orbited by the celestial wonder that is Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, ...

Yep, both of them are Dutch inventions! In 1608 (one year before Galileo, say what?!), spectacle-craftsmen Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey from Middelburg developed the telescope. Two gentlemen ...

The truth of the matter is that if they were to admit that indeed no such thing has happened, I mean it would cause serious reverberations across the scientific world.... It would be like when Galileo ...

Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been ...