telescope

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

You don't need binoculars or a telescope to see meteors, just give your eyes sometime to adjust to looking up at the night sky.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“The beauty of anthropology for me is that I can telescope out and try to understand what’s happening to society right now,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Previous reliable measurements of hydrogen at these distances generally required astronomers to combine radio telescope observations with data from optical galaxy surveys.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

One of the most impressive features of Galileo’s entire career is that within 24 hours he had built a telescope better than anything else known at the time.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

By night, they set up telescopes, trace constellations with laser pointers and explain what visitors are seeing in the dark skies.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Grizedale Observatory near Ambleside, Cumbria, opened in May 2024, offering public access to telescopes, a planetarium and meteorite laboratory, as well as staging a dark skies festival and other events.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The Wide Field Instrument, or WFI, is designed to combine an unusually broad view of the sky with the kind of sharp detail associated with space telescopes such as NASA's Hubble.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the future we may have telescopes in the Earth’s orbit, around toward the other side of the Sun, in effect a radio telescope as large as the inner solar system.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

Nevertheless, the telescoping cardboard applicator tampon is intimately familiar to almost anyone who’s had a period in the last century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

There was an endearing, oddball quality to the program he led near the end of May, telescoping between the intimate and the grand.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

She walked backward for several steps, her movement inertial, tipsy, and then disappeared down the telescoping tunnel.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee