Instruments with lenses or mirrors that make distant objects appear closer and clearer; devices used to observe stars and planets.
From Greek 'tele' (far) and 'skopein' (to look or see). The word was invented in the 1600s when the first telescopes were created, combining ancient Greek roots to describe the new technology.
Galileo didn't invent the telescope, but he was the first to point one at the sky in 1610, and what he saw—the moons of Jupiter—literally changed our understanding of the universe in a single night.
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