Despite those advancements, ancient peoples were operating from ... Shortly after he began producing his binoculars, news of the telescope reached Galileo. These days, the telescope is mostly ...

Astronomers of ancient Greece named it for the titan Kronos. The Romans called it "the star of Saturn," their name for Kronos' Latin counterpart, but through his telescope, Galileo made it out to ...

3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of Galileo ... captured images of many ancient galaxies, in all ...