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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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You won't need binoculars or a telescope; the shower is best viewed with the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

These women - all in their late 20s - grew up watching these stars, but it was only a few years ago that they learnt to study them through a telescope.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Scaringi expects the telescope "to map more of these systems as well as fainter ones and detect similar systems in detail, ultimately helping in understanding the mysterious energy source that remains unexplained."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026

“The beauty of anthropology for me is that I can telescope out and try to understand what’s happening to society right now,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Since a reflecting telescope does not rely on refraction, it does not produce a halo of different colours around the image.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The boundary of the observable universe is not merely the farthest distance our telescopes can currently reach.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

They hope for advanced training and better telescopes and eyepieces to enhance visitors' experience.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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

That could make better use of heavily requested telescopes and reduce the number of observations made when little activity is expected.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

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

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

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 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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