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Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

There are two types of telescopes: a lens-based refractor and a mirror-based reflector. All telescopes ... the moon included – a telescope can be used to study planets, nebulae, distant star ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not run by who you might think.

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