(For more on the controversy Galileo spawned, see His Big Mistake.) Building a better refractor The spyglass-turned-telescope had limitations, some of which Galileo was able to design around.

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 ...

John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

PhotoPhoto of the Sun in hydrogen-alpha light. The giant planet Jupiter, whose large moons Galileo discovered with his "trouble-making" telescope, is more than 5 times farther from the Sun than ...

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 ...

(Kevin Berne) Galileo Galilei (Raúl Esparza) has taken root in his laboratory, a man of 45 who has trouble ... An affirmation of those teachings, thanks to Galileo’s enhancement of the telescope, has ...

Even though it had been observed in the sky since prehistory, it wasn’t until Galileo came along with his trusty telescope that more was found out about it. In fact, what he saw surrounding the ...

German astronomer Simon Marius is best remembered for his disputes with Galileo Galilei over priority for discovering Jupiter ...

Telescope, sire of last season's Supreme Novices' Hurdle victor Slade Steel, will stand at Foxwood Farm in County Cork for ...