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The Spitzer Space Telescope is launched, the Spitzer

telescope studies the infrared spectrum of the
Radiation Sattelites
electromagnetic spectrum 2003 - Infrared
The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Space Telescope
Without atmospheric distortion, Hubble is able to peer 1990 - Hubble
into the edges of the universe.
The Albert Einstien Observatory is the first X - Ray Observatories
imaging sattelite launched by NASA
This was the pioneer and predessor of r the Chandra X -
1978 - X-Ray
Ray Observatory.
Holmdel Horn Antenna Telescope is built, the antenna
antenna
that discovered the microwave background radiation of Microwave
the Big Bang.
Pionerred Microwave telescope research
1959 - Holdmdel
Karl Guthe built the first radio telescope the first
Telescope
telescope that would explore beyond the visible 1930 - First Radio
spectrum
Observatory
Mount Wilson Obsservatory first opened, this is where Willson
Hubble discored the expanding universe. 1917 - Mount
First "image" of the moon was taken by John William
Imaging
Draper 1840 - Stellar
Pionereed in stellar imaging
Basis of all modern telescopes, and is still used in
Reflector
principal today for large scale telescopes 1672 - Cassegrain
Problems of misallignment and coma were fixed
Used reflecting lenses to improve the quality of the Telescope
image.
Resulted in crisper image and more comact design.
1668 - Newtonian
Had problems with coma misallignments.
Used refractive lenses to magnify images
The Keplerian Telescope improved Field of view, crispness Telescopes
of image
Keplerian telescopes had an issue of chromatic aberration,
1611 - Keplerien
and geometric distortion
Telescope Timeline
Telescope Timeline
http://www.howdotelescopeswork.com/Timeline-of-Telescopes.php 
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/telescopes/telescopes-interactive 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmdel_Horn_Antenna 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_telescope_technology 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_telescopes,_observatories,_and_observing_technology 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_Observatory 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitzer_Space_Telescope 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhuru_(satellite) 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Wilson_Observatory 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksutov_telescope 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtonian_telescope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NewtonsTelescopeReplica.jpg