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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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This elevated vantage point allowed the telescope to capture exceptionally detailed measurements of the Sun's magnetic fields.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Sunrise-III was designed to overcome this obstacle by carrying a powerful solar telescope far above most of the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The meteors are visible to the naked eye so you won't need any specialist equipment like binoculars or a telescope.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

A new hide at Groyne is currently being built and will include a telescope.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

In fact, all three had a single cause: the telescope, whose impact was the same for anyone who looked through it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The new gallery features 16 images that bring together observations from some of the world's most powerful telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 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

Clothes, vacations, plastic surgery, telescopes, traveling circuses, radioactive spiders, trips to the moon, and then the suggestions got weird.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 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 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

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


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