Astronomers use telescopes like refracting and reflecting telescopes to study the Solar System. The Hubble Telescope is a large reflecting telescope that takes detailed pictures of space. Some important figures that advanced our understanding of space include Isaac Newton who discovered gravity, Laika the dog who was the first animal in space, Yuri Gagarin as the first human in space, Neil Armstrong as the first person to walk on the moon, and Galileo who showed the Earth orbits the Sun.