telescope
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Together with specialized ground support equipment, the fairing also keeps the telescope in a controlled environment as teams move it between facilities.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Roman is NASA's newest space telescope and is designed to give astronomers a much broader view of the cosmos.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
The unprecedented $30 million dollar mission attempted to send a robot to grab the telescope and move it farther into orbit.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
"We have a new pillar going up through the floor, new dome and a new telescope to carry us forward for a number of decades to come."
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Turning his new telescope towards Venus in 1610 he found that it had phases—proof that it too shone by reflected light.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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"That makes it very promising for the new telescopes becoming available, including the Roman Space Telescope, which can see an area 100-times larger than that of the Hubble."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
At extreme distances, some surrounding structures become too faint for current telescopes to detect, leaving only the bright central source visible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
She described a Concord hotel as serving “Walden water, aesthetic tea” and “Orphic acorns by the peck,” and offering telescopes for “the gifted eyes which desire to watch the songs of the oversoul.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Aston said he set up two telescopes for his neighbours to view the eclipse through which had "queues of people lined up", who wanted to get photos of the phenomenon.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
When seventeenth-century European sailors first saw the southern skies they put objects of seventeenth- century interest in the heavens—toucans and peacocks, telescopes and microscopes, compasses and the sterns of ships.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2020
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 windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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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
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
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
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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