telescope
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Both the Murriyang telescope and the Canberra complex contributed to NASA's Artemis II mission in April 2026, continuing Australia's decades-long involvement in space exploration.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
The telescope also played a significant role during the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, serving as an important receiving station for communications from the historic mission.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
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 won't need binoculars or a telescope; the shower is best viewed with the naked eye.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He was back in Venice before the end of August, where his demonstration of the telescope to the Senate was a sensation.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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"Radio telescopes are incredibly powerful, but knowing when to look is just as important as knowing where to look," said Dr. Goodwin.
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
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
"Roman doesn't have a separate guider instrument, like other space telescopes do," Vila said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Such telescopes may reveal the internal structure and nature of quasars.
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
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
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
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
I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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