“There are billions of places out there that we know nothing about. The fact that we know nothing about them excites me, and I want to go out and find out about them. And that is what science is.” English physicist Brian Cox Lensmaker Hans Lippershey laid the modern foundation for astronomy when he designed the refracting telescope. Later, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei made a significant leap by peering into the cosmos through the telescope which he had perfected. Since then, innumerable discoveries have been made, and our knowledge of the universe continues to grow. The invention of the telescope…
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