When I think of a telescope, I think of a camera looking device with a long lense on a tripod. I imagine looking through a telescope at the moon or at one of the brighter planets in our solar system, such as venus or mars. I am amazed by the planetarium's photos and models of our world's most powerful telescopes and the descriptions of what they can see and measure.
There are telescopes that look like massive globes with glass eyeballs rising up from the earth. Telescopes that resemble giant versions of the satelite TV dishes you see on house rooftops. Telescopes that float in space! Not only can these telescopes see far into our solar system and beyond, but some of them measure things in space, like sound, light or electromagnetic radiation. If you want to hear what space sounds like, click here.
While Monroe reads everything there is to learn about telescopes, I look at some of the pictures taken by telescopes. I can't even begin to explain the beauty of a nebula or a distant galaxy or even our own planet as taken from space. If you want to see some of these images for yourself, click here.