On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 you wrote:

> For my homework I need to answer this question.
> Any discoveries made in space using any kind of telescope.I need to know what
> was discovered, when it was discovered & who made the discovery.
> Thanks.
> Kat.

Hello,

There are literally thousands of discoveries that have been made with
telescopes - virtually everything that we know about astronomy was
discovered because of what has been seen through a telescope.

You can find the early history telescopes, and some of the most
important discoveries made by Galileo, at the following web site:
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/telescope.html
Also check out the web site of the Mt Wilson observatory:
http://www.mtwilson.edu/Education/

The web page of almost any observatory will talk of the science being done
there.

Thanks for writing,
Kurtis Williams

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