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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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The 82-year-old is the brains behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice that detects neutrinos -- particles with almost no mass that seldom interact with other matter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

They have been based at Rodington Village Hall, near Shrewsbury, for 25 years but think the telescope will raise interest in astronomy.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"If one of us takes even a single day off, the families ask why the telescope was not set up," she jokes.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Scaringi expects the telescope "to map more of these systems as well as fainter ones and detect similar systems in detail, ultimately helping in understanding the mysterious energy source that remains unexplained."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Beyond revealing something fundamental about black hole physics, the discovery could help astronomers make much better use of powerful radio telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

According to the researchers, the necessary spectral resolution for this kind of analysis is currently available only through ground-based telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

While its telescopes continued scanning the distant universe, unusually generous winter rains brought the surrounding outback to life in a brilliant display of wildflowers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

These rare signals carry clues to where the neutrinos came from and the extreme conditions that produced them — allowing scientists to investigate places that ordinary telescopes cannot easily see.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Hevelius was, however, happy to use telescopes for other purposes, such as mapping the moon, and eventually built a massive 150-footer.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017

The entire fifty-foot pedestal telescoped downward into a spiral staircase.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Whether it’s Tetrised inside a delivery truck, cradling a cappuccino or telescoping over a tampon, cardboard is a paradox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright


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