facts about telescope

1. one  of the biggest telescope mirrors is 330 inches(8.4 m) across to make the mirror a reflective metal surface  was laid on a giant said glass base.

2. cell phones and cameras can be clamped to the eyepiece of a telescope to take photos of space.

3.  alma the world's  biggest radio  telescope observatory has 66 movable  radio antennas.

4. different telescope can see different types of energy form space  radio  waves visible  light  x rays  and  other high energy particles.

5. thought  galileo,s telescope people saw that stars and planets move in patterns which helped them figure  out that earth orbits the sun rather than the other  way around.

6.   a telescope  called  nester  allows  astronomers to see the x ray laced winds blasting out of supermassive black  holes the winds come out in the shape of a sphere.

7.  when the giants  magellan  telescopes is  built in 2021 it will  be  able to view objects such as these pillars of creation it the eagle nebula some 7,000 light year away.

8. an inventor created a telescope that converts  light into sound giving viewers a mulsensory experience.

9.  the Hubble telescope has traveled more than three billion miles (4.8 billion km)

10. the  Spitzer  space telescope is super cool literally it's  kept at minus 450/ f (268/c).

11. a telescope left on patio is believed to have started a house fire is sunny Arizona   U.S.A.

12. nasa's Kepler telescope zooms through the milky way galaxy  in search of other earth like planets it has discovered thousands of possible  planets  in our galaxy alone.

13.  inside a standard  telescope tube a series of lenses  magnify objects to many time  there actual  size.

14.  The spitzer Sauce Telescope  has found  Neptune size planets surrounded by clouds of helium. 

15.  some  of first telescope weren't  used to look at the stars they were used tp spot enemy ships.

16. the alma observatory is located in Chile's Atacama  Desert because there is almost no humidity  there  to block light  from deep space. 

17.  the telescope mirror at mount Wilson observatory in California  U.A.S. took 200 men to  put into place.

18.  nasa's nester telescope observes x rays the same thing  doctors use to see your bones.

19.  gamma ray telescope have to be in orbit to work because earth's atmosphere  absorbs the hight energy rays.

from called book national geographic kids almanac