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| Paper: |
Seeing the Universe: On the Cusp of Technology |
| Volume: |
409, Cosmology Across Cultures |
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82 |
| Authors: |
Impey, C. |
| Abstract: |
Since Galileo Galilei turned his modest spyglass to the night sky 400 years ago, his heirs have enhanced his legacy by the method of using successively larger lenses, and then concave mirrors. Astronomers have even succeeded in stilling the night air with flexible optics, letting their telescopes register the sharpest images that optics will allow. New technologies allow the creation of telescopes that would be unrecognizable to Galileo. They don’t use glass mirrors or lenses and they often gather radiation that’s invisible to the eye. Astronomers have even managed to use the Earth as a telescope. These innovations have given us a sharper vision of the universe, and a better sense of our place in space and time. |
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