2015 Event Scientists have concluded that a large ocean exists beneath the icy surface of Ganymede, the largest moon of Jupiter; the discovery was made by using the Hubble Space Telescope to observe aurora movements at the moon's poles 2014 Event Scientists using the BICEP2 telescope identify evidence for cosmic inflation; if confirmed, this evidence will provide support for the Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe 2014 Event The government of the U.K. has announced that it will put 11 million pounds into the funding of the Square Kilometer Array project, a radio telescope that will collect massive amounts of data from space, requiring immense computing resources 2014 Event NASA announces that its Kepler space telescope has discovered 715 planets in other solar systems, bringing the instrument's new-planet tally to 961; four of the latest discoveries are thought to have an orbit favorable to habitation, but the distance of these planets makes exploration impossible with current technology 2013 Event The most distant supernova on record is recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope 2012 Event Construction of The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), the world's biggest optical telescope is approved 1997 Event Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope 1996 Event 1st surface photos of Pluto by Hubble Space Telescope 1995 Event Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii (est 15 billion light years away) 1993 Event Astronauts begin repair of Hubble telescope in space 1992 Event Arecibo radio telescope begins Microwave search for occupied planets 1992 Death George Lovi, U.S. columnist (Sky and Telescope's "Ramblings"), dies 1992 Event Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 1991 Event Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii 1990 Event Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph's from space 1990 Event Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery 1988 Event 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses 1983 Event Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit 1980 Event Very Large Array radio telescope network dedicated 1976 Event World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.) 1974 Event 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away 1967 Event Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope 1962 Event U.S. National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope 1949 Event 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used 1948 Event 200" (5.08 m) Hale telescope dedicated at Palomar Observatory 1947 Event 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed 1936 Event 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, New York-Cal Tech 1911 Birthday Grote Reber, U.S., astronomer, 1st parabolic radio telescope 1910 Death Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies 1889 Event John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope 1862 Event Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius 1851 Event Alvan Clark patents telescope 1849 Event William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope 1842 Event Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope 1764 Event Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire 1682 Birthday John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1621 Event Galileo invents telescope 1619 Death John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried 1612 Event Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope 1611 Event Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi) 1609 Event Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1609 Event Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope 1608 Event Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
