We don't know - but Galileo gets the credit (mainly because he wrote about it).
the first telescope built by NASA placed into orbit was the hubble space telescope.
Hans Lippershey was credited in inventing the very first telescope. Galileo did NOT invent the telescope.
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Galileo was the first person to use a telescope for technological uses.
The first thing that was photographed and looked at by the Hubble Space Telescope was i believe the outer edge of the Milky Way.
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the color of the stars is realetedto its
I believe Galileo Galilei was the inventor of the telescope, which he then use to make observations about the heavens. Kepler then refined these observations, which Sir Isaac Newton then condensed into the theory of gravitation of celestial bodies.
From the heavenly bodies themoon was the nearest and largest body.
Copernicus and Galileo are the first to come to mind, but there are many others beside these two.
He was the first to say that the earth along with the other heavenly bodies orbited around the sun not the other way around.
amerigo as prevent the first telescope.
how long was the first radio telescope
On the forefront of telescopic technology was the linear tracking of stellar/heavenly bodies, replacing traditional tape encoders.
Galileo used and made the first telescope.
the first telescope built by NASA placed into orbit was the hubble space telescope.