Seeing The Universe Like We've Never Seen It Before

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Space Telescope is in a way a little like Galileo's first telescope.

Wherever Galileo pointed his telescope, he made major new discoveries.

Look at the Moon, you find mountains and craters, look at Saturn, you find rings, look at the Milky Way and you find that it is littered and composed of stars.

If you could look back in time, when would you look back to?

Early man?

The time of the dinosaurs?

Or the birth of our planet?

We like to say telescopes are like time machines.

And of course the reason that this is possible is because light takes time to travel.

So the street lamp across the street takes a teeny tiny fraction of a second for the light to reach your eye.

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