telescope
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One of Webb's microshutter arrays was positioned directly over the galaxy's core, allowing the telescope to collect spectroscopic data from its center.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Aston's parents said he started showing an interest in the night sky from the age of two, this continued until he was given his first telescope aged six.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Webb is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
By then, he said, he will have a telescope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
The key change occurred in 1608 with the invention of the telescope and the microscope.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Those findings helped set the stage for more detailed observations with NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 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
PhD student James Metcalf, 24, said the experts were tweaking the telescopes to follow the passage of the Sun.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Dozens of different kinds of organic molecules have been found there by radio telescopes.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
As a workaround, Erika Vetter plays a younger version of the marquise, enacting a telescoped version of her life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
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
If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
With two telescoping sections as opposed to three, they compress to 32 inches.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 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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