The tradition began in 1920, when Russell Porter taught fellow factory workers to build their own telescopes. Today, that legacy lives on through the Springfield Telescope Makers, a club led by board ...

However, the days of bulky, expensive telescope lenses could soon be coming to an end thanks to the team's new flat lens measuring less than a millimeter thick. that has been developed by a team ...

The images are taken and compiled to show the final image. The Hubble Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Mo. By his first birthday he moved to Wheaton, Il.