Two Small Pieces of Glass July 29, 2009

Join two teenage students at a local star party as they discover how the telescope has helped us understand our place in the cosmos. Learn how telescopes work and how the world's largest observatories use them to explore the mysteries of the universe. Explore the Galilean Moons of Jupiter, Saturn's rings and the spiral structure of galaxies and learn about the discoveries of Galileo, Huygens, Newton, Hubble and other observational explorers.