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Galileo improves the telescope and begins using it for astronomy, starting with lunar observations. German astronomer Johannes Kepler designs a new telescope using convex lenses. A concave reflecting telescope is built by Niccolo Zucchi, ...
Kepler is a spaceborne telescope designed to search the nearby region of our galaxy for Earth-size planets orbiting in the habitable zone of stars like our sun. The habitable zone is the region around a star where temperatures permit water to be liquid on a ... NASA's Ames Research Center, Mof...