How Do Telescopes Work? | Earth Lab

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Greg Foot explains the inner workings of a telescope. Science has come a long way since the first two lens prototype invented back in 1608.
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1 http://www.space.com/21950-who-invented-the-telescope.html
2 http://astro.uchicago.edu/vtour/inside/stats.html
3 http://www.gtc.iac.es/gtc/gtc.php
4 http://www.space.com/22505-worlds-largest-telescopes-explained-infographic.html
5 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/story/index.html
6 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission
7 https://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/faq/#a4

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