telescope
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If you have binoculars or a telescope then a few other bonus planets will also be visible this month.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
That timeline leaves a limited window to evaluate potential solutions, develop a mission, and carry it out before the telescope descends too far.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
The telescope travels through low Earth orbit, where traces of Earth's atmosphere create drag that slowly reduces the altitude of orbiting spacecraft.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
It did so as it announced cuts to several other particle physics and astronomy projects, including Jodrell Bank's iconic Lovell telescope.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
From the heights of Monticello, Jefferson watched the British troops through his spyglass, or hand telescope.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
New and upcoming telescopes are expected to collect increasingly detailed information about enormous numbers of distant galaxies, providing scientists with fresh ways to test their understanding of the early cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that does not emit or reflect light, making it impossible to observe directly with conventional telescopes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026
Launched in 2004, Swift was a pioneering space observatory equipped with three telescopes designed to study some of the most powerful explosions in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
She presses her whole weight on it, and the antenna makes a faint grating noise above the roof as it telescopes upward.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
As a workaround, Erika Vetter plays a younger version of the marquise, enacting a telescoped version of her life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
There were two wheels at one end and a handle that telescoped out from the base at the other.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2018
If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
Then we step forward — you can think of telescoping in on finer and finer timescales — we get from the billion year timescale to the hundreds of millions year timescale.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023
And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
With two telescoping sections as opposed to three, they compress to 32 inches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023
Etienne raises the heavy telescoping antenna alongside the line of the chimney.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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