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Lippershey’s lenses In 1608, German-Dutch spectacle maker Hans Lippershey combined curved lenses in a long tube to make the first teLescope, which magnified objects up to three times. He went on to make several telescopes for the Dutch government, and was paid very handsomely in return.
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Galileo Italian scientist GaLiLeo GaLiLei improved Lippershey’s telescope in 1609 and turned it to the stars. His telescopes were able to make distant objects appear bigger, and gazing through them, he observed the craters of our Moon and four of Jupiter’s moons, identified the fuzzy Milky Way as vast numbers of distant stars, and even realized that the earth orbits the sun. The two KecK telescopes in Hawaii have had their eyes on the cosmos since the 1990s. They observe visible and infrared light.
