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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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"We can finally ground our understanding of telescope observations of the thermal properties of an asteroid through analyzing these samples from that very same asteroid," Ballouz said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Operating with a telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, ZTF repeatedly photographs large sections of the night sky.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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

In 1611 John Donne, referring to Galileo’s discoveries with his telescope made the previous year, declared that ‘new philosophy calls all in doubt’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

By revealing these processes in remarkable detail, NASA's Chandra and its partner telescopes are helping astronomers understand the forces that shape galaxies, including our own.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Beyond revealing something fundamental about black hole physics, the discovery could help astronomers make much better use of powerful radio telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 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

Over 15 days, they learnt to identify stars, planets and constellations, navigate the night sky, operate telescopes and photograph the Milky Way on their phones.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Hevelius was, however, happy to use telescopes for other purposes, such as mapping the moon, and eventually built a massive 150-footer.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017

When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

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

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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