And what you see there in that tissue section, in fact, is you see that reflector tape.

It's a new telescope.

And that's Curtis Wong, WorldWide Telescope.

But he found 140 comets without a telescope.

You can see the stars using a telescope.

Because they thought that if you are having a telescope, you are an astronomer so what you are doing is actually looking in a telescope.

Roy Gould and Curtis Wong preview the WorldWide Telescope

And so WorldWide Telescope will be available this spring.

So, we want to build a 30 meter telescope.

And the bigger the telescope, the bigger that universe becomes.

This is the integration of WorldWide Telescope into our maps.

And so, here's an image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

We can see things in the distance using a telescope.

You can use a telescope to look at the stars.

The telescope, going up in space, it unfolds in two places.

So, it's kind of like very fancy eyeglasses for your telescope.

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

Do you know the difference between a microscope and a telescope?

The telescope is actually built similarly to the, well known to you, Hubble Space Telescope, except it does have an additional lens a wide field lens, as you would call it as a photographer.

It's an artist's rendition, but it flew in a Japanese telescope in 1995.

The wireless telescope was a digital camera I had tucked in my pocket.

However, it was only at the beginning of 2002 that the first Target of Opportunity programme started, using the 2.5 m Isaac Newton Telescope and the 1.0 m Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope facilities at La Palma, Spain.

Could you image if we looked through the Hubble Telescope and we saw that?

Engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab had an idea for a telescope much larger.

But this is a five meter telescope has about a quarter mile focal length.

So here's an observer it could be an eye it could be a telescope.

Many of the images you are seeing are earlier from the Hubble Space Telescope.

And that's the reason that for this experiment we've used the world's largest telescope.

And with a more powerful telescope, you'll be able to see stars, and planets.

If we can find comets without a telescope, shouldn't we be able to find words?

While it's Kepler the telescope, the instrument that stares, it's we, life, who are searching.

You can see the stars with your naked eye, and even better through a telescope.

From Siberia to the Atacama Desert in Chile, to see something called The Very Large Telescope.

In the case of Galileo, he had two problems when he turned his telescope to Saturn.

And I start with Galileo who used the world's first telescope to look at the Moon.

And then, here's a beautiful composite of the Whirlpool Galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Target of Opportunity programme has the advantage of making a large telescope available when needed.

Before the light bulb was invented, people had figured out how to put a reflector behind it, focus it a little bit put lenses in front of it, focus it a little bit better.

It's like building a microscope or telescope and revealing new structures about our own behavior around communication.

It'll be, in a sense, like having time on a telescope, except you'll have your own port.

With the Hubble Space Telescope, we're looking at hundreds of millions of years to a billion years.

Now, there is actually a little origami in the James Webb Space Telescope, but it's very simple.

Through a small telescope, this would look quite blank, but you see here hundreds of little, faint smudges.

The Very Large Telescope is one of these things that astronomers do they name their telescopes rather unimaginatively.

And the thing I want you to look at here is the telescope on the right hand side.