Two Small Pieces of Glass: the Amazing Telescope October 3, 2010

Four hundred years ago, a simple adjustment to a child's spyglass revealed an infinite and perplexing universe. Today, the world's great telescopes gaze into both the distant past and into our future. From simple diagrams to dramatic full dome fly-throughs, this program illustrates the important contributions made with telescopes, and how some telescopes work. A short, live star talk is included in the program.