telescope

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Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Argentina’s recent decision to pause a joint Chinese effort to construct a large radio telescope is a hopeful sign.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Founded by three physicists, the company at first focused on missile-tracking algorithms but later pivoted to build what it has described as the “world’s largest commercial optical telescope network.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

The telescope will search for difficult to detect near-Earth objects, including dark asteroids and comets that reflect very little visible light.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

This cannot be true in any absolute sense; Galileo’s telescope transformed the world of astronomers before they had any new words for what they could now see—before they even had the word ‘telescope’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton