Today I get to tell you all the amazing things I learned in my astronomy class this week.

Starting off with Giovanni Demisiani, the man who came up with the telescope terminology, telescope means far-seeing. He came up with the idea in 1608 and soon after he did it was built by Galileo Galilei.

Now we have lots of astronomers that are very fascinated by this new invention. A man named Johannes Kepler invented a refracting telescope in 1611, it had a wider scope than most telescopes we have today. I think it looks like the telescopes from those pirate movies. The only problem that would occur is there would sometimes be a rainbow haze reflecting into the telescope, making it harder to see things clearly.

Many years later, around 1668 the reflecting telescope was invented. A very well-known man named Sir Isaac Newton actually invented this telescope. What made this telescope so special is that it had mirrors instead of lenses. One mirror was concave, and the other mirror was slightly tilted. This made it so that the light would bounce off the tilted mirror and hit the concave piece, which would then go right into your retinal.

Moving on we also looked over the telescope history and some very interesting space theories. For about 70 years people believed that the earth was in the middle of the universe. They would say that the stars and the sun, moon, and Venus actually went around the earth in a circular orbit.

I found this all very fascinating, I had lots of fun learning all about telescopes and the history behind them. That concludes my report summary. I hope you found these as fascinating and interesting as I did. Thank you for reading, see you next time!