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NASA's most famous telescope is probably the Hubble Telescope that orbits the earth.
The Hubble Telescope
The first large space telescope was the Hubble, and it's probably still the most famous one. But a LOT of the new and exciting work being done is using the Kepler Space Telescope, a device which was specially designed to search for planets around neighboring stars.
It is the Hubble Space Telescope.
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He created the first telescope
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You name the astronomer, and I'll identify the telescope. Whoever it is, I suspect the telescope has the same name.
NASA's most famous telescope is probably the Hubble Telescope that orbits the earth.
The largest practical functioning refracting telescope is the Yerkes Observatory 40 inch (102 cm) refractor.
The first large space telescope was the Hubble, and it's probably still the most famous one. But a LOT of the new and exciting work being done is using the Kepler Space Telescope, a device which was specially designed to search for planets around neighboring stars.
It is named after an Indian-American astrophysicist, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.