Friday, April 10, 2009

The Top 10 Telescopes of All Time

From PopSci.com:

A look back at the 400-year-old art of assisted sky-gazing.

Humans have been looking to the heavens for as long as we have had stories to tell about them. But the way we look up has come quite far in the past 400 years, since Galileo Galilei first pointed a spyglass to the sky.

In honor of the 400th anniversary of the telescope, Popular Science looks back on the top 10 observatories on Earth and beyond.

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