While Galileo didn't invent the telescope ... on what people could see with their eyes and calculate. Optical telescopes improved that ability by taking visible light, magnifying and focusing ...

In striving to make images he saw through his telescope ever larger, Galileo found that his field ... astronomers had plenty of room to improve magnification. One way to do that, they knew ...

Matt Rourke / AP Images Galileo improved upon the original telescope design. His telescopes magnified images by 8 to 30 times. Granger Collection, New York Some scholars were disturbed by Galileo ...

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 ...

At nearly 10,000 feet above sea level - and almost 6,200 miles (10,000 kilometers) from Rome - you’ll find the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), part of the Mount Graham ...

Credit: Galileo Galilei, 1610 Within sixty years, Isaac Newton had built his own new and improved reflecting telescope with a curved mirror, coated with a fine layer of reflective silver metal ...