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The story behind the telescope

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Continuing with our celebration of The International Year of Astronomy, Derrick Pitts talks about Galileo's telescope and how he slowly moved to using more powerful telescopes that helped him validate the theory that the sun was in fact the center of the universe. Now all he had to do was convince the Catholic church. Find out the rest of the story on this week's "SkyTalk."

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Dr. Derrick H. Pitts

Senior Scientist, Chief Astronomer, Franklin Institute Science Museum

Sky Talk is a weekly discussion of what's new and interesting in astronomy with Dr. Derrick Pitts and WHYY FM's Dave Heller every Monday evening during NewsWorks Tonight at 6 pm. Learn more about Dr. Derrick Pitts »

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