telescope
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Webb is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Coverage will include telescope views and drone footage of the eclipse, along with Maggie and Carole's reactions as they witness the event.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Einstein’s equations predicted what should happen, but someone still had to carry a telescope to the right place, wait beneath a darkened sky and look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
People can also watch safely by projecting an image of the sun onto a white card using a telescope, a cereal box pinhole viewer, or even a kitchen colander.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
She flew off the telescope and landed a few feet away upon the unbroken mast.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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Several additional small telescopes will be brought to the observatory specifically for the eclipse.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
Both solar telescopes and eclipse glasses will be available.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
So scientists anchor the world’s coordinates to far-off stillness: quasars, the luminous cores of galaxies billions of light-years away, observed nightly by radio telescopes across multiple continents and cross-checked with lasers bounced off satellites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
As a result, they can move through galactic outskirts without being noticed by telescopes on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
We knew this from photographs taken on earth through telescopes, and also those taken by spacecraft from up close.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
At the Sirius Town Hall, the old “Mike and the Mad Dog” jingle plays, and fans in throwback Mets jerseys gather, and time has been telescoped.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2017
When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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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
This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023
Sohrab threw his arm over my shoulder and smiled into his mom’s telescoping lens.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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