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Telescopes are used to magnify distant objects. Most telescopes are either refractor telescopes or reflector telescopes. Refractors use glass lenses and reflector telescopes use mirrors instead of lenses. The objective lens and the eyepiece lens magnify the image so that it looks bigger. Look here for more information: http://science.howstuffworks.com/telescope.
