🔭 History of the Telescope

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🔍 What is a telescope?

A telescope is a tool that helps us see faraway objects like:

• The Moon 🌙
• Planets 🪐
• Stars ✨

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🧑‍🔬 Who invented the telescope?

• The first telescope was invented in 1608.
• It was made by a man named Hans Lippershey from the Netherlands.
• His telescope used glass lenses to make things look bigger.

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🌌 Galileo and the telescope

• Galileo Galilei did not invent the telescope,
  but he improved it.
• In 1609, Galileo used a telescope to study the sky.

What did Galileo discover?

• Mountains on the Moon 🌙
• Moons of Jupiter 🪐
• Many stars in the Milky Way 🌌

His discoveries changed how people understood space!

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🚀 How telescopes improved over time

• First telescopes used lenses (refracting telescopes)
• Later, telescopes used mirrors (reflecting telescopes)
• Today, we have space telescopes like:
  • Hubble
  • James Webb

These can see very far into space!

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⭐ Fun facts for kids

• Telescopes don’t bring objects closer—they make them look bigger
• The biggest telescopes are on mountain tops
• Space telescopes don’t look through Earth’s air

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🧠 Easy to remember

Lippershey invented it, Galileo explored the sky with it

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