Hubble Telescope Timeline

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There has been lots of inventions and innovations of the development of telescopes throughout the years. Starting with the first telescope invented by Galileo, it made people understand things in space. With three citations, we can travel throughout time, to find out how the telescope appeared, and how it changed history.
In “Timeline,” they explain how the first space telescope program started. It was started by a guy called Lyman Spitzer. They address how the hubble telescope came to become “the Hubble Telescope.”
But, according to “Time Line: A history of telescopes,” has very excellent information present on the website. It gives all the telescopes from 1609 to 2005, with the Hubble telescope mentioned on the year 1990. Before the Hubble

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