telescope
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Other purchases included designer kitchenware, multiple pairs of shoes, expensive pens and a £1,200 space telescope.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
With a telescope you could not find a Hearts fan who does not believe now.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
There, Lowell convinced himself that alien-built canals crisscrossed the Martian surface, though anyone who has observed Mars with a similar telescope knows it’s hard to see much detail at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Thanks to its infrared vision, the telescope will be able to observe light emitted by celestial bodies billions of years ago, effectively looking back in time to hopefully discover more about the two phenomena.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
Having observed the moon, Galileo turned his telescope to Jupiter and discovered that Jupiter had moons.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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