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FirstScope Telescope Galileo Giovanni DOfficoiam l Proedunct OifcThoe 20C09aInstesrniatnionial Year of Astronomy Annie Jump Sir Isaac Newton J Jacob Edwin Powell Hubble Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist whose work in the ohannes Kepler 17th century helped unlock many secrets Metius Nicolaus Copernicus Sir Arthur of astronomy and natural motion. Galileo's achievements include building the first Cannon high-powered astronomical telescope. Stanley Sacharias Tyge Ottesen Brahe Hans Giovanni Domenico Cassini's Lippershey Giovanni Domenico Cassini Galileo work established much of what we know of the solar system, including size, rotational periods of nearby planets, exact orbits of the moons of Jupiter, satellites of Saturn, and Galileo the gap in Saturn's rings, which are Giovanninamed Domenico after him. Cassini Annie Jump Edwin Powell EdwinHuPboblwe ell Hubble Sir Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler Jacob was the first astronomer to Nicolaus Copernicus Sir Arthur Metius find observable evidence that the universe is Cannon expanding, a discovery Stanley Hans which helped establish the theory of the "Big Bang." Sacharias Tyge Ottesen Brahe Lippershey Johannes Kepler Giovanni SDiroImsaaecnNicewotonCassini Galileo was the first to correctly constructed a reflecting telescope, the first of its kind, and Giovanni Domenico Cassini Galileo Annie Jump explain planetary motion, thereby, becoming founder of celestial mechanics and the first the prototype of the largest modern optical telescopes. "natural laws". Edwin Powell Hubble Sir Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler Jacob Annie Jump Metius Nicolaus Cannon had a phenomenal eye for Copernicus Cannon Sir Arthur Stanley Sacharias Tyge Ottesen Brahe Hans stellar spectra, and her Draper catalogs were valued as the work of a single observer. Cannon also published catalogs Lippershey Galileo of variable stars (including 300 she discovered). Her career Giovanni Domenico Cassini Sir spanned more than forty years, during which women in science won Arthur Stanley grudging acceptance. Sacharias Tyge Ottesen Brahe Edwin Powell Hubble Sir Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler Jacob