Space and Telescope Question?

Question

1.Who is generally credited with inventing the first telescope?

2. Who first used the telescope to observe objects in space?

3. What is the name of Earth's galaxy?

4. What is a constellation and please name one?

5. On what space shuttle was the Hubble space shuttle luanched on?

Answer 1

The first telescope was made by Galileo. He called it an "optik tube". He put two lenses (invented by a Dutchman some time earlier) together in a tube and used to it look at the moon. He eventually went blind looking at the sun.
The earth is in the Milky Way galaxy, a collection of some 200 billion stars and a part of what's known as the local group of galaxies.
Constellations are groupings of stars as seen from earth that to certain people resembled different objects. Some constellations are Leo (the lion), Draco (the dragon), Ursa major (the great bear), Orion (the hunter) and Scorpio (the scorpion)
I couldn't find any reference as to which shuttle carried the HST into orbit but it was launched in 1990 and there have since been four servicing missions to keep the thing working, the first of which was to correct the defective mirror.

Answer 2

1. Unknown
2. Chinese
3. Milky Way
4. A constellation is any one of the 88 areas into which the sky — or the celestial sphere — is divided. Leo
5. Discovery

Answer 3

1. Hans Lippershey
2. Galileo
3. The Milky Way
4. A pattern of stars, one is called Orion
5. STS-31, Discovery.

Answer 4

1.Jan Lippershey
2.Galileo
3. Milky Way
4. Agroup of stars that appear to form a picture in the sky. Scorpio, the scorpion. Gemini, the twins.

Answer 5

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