telescope
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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
The ability to anticipate these eruptions may become particularly useful for major future observatories, including the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project, which is expected to begin collecting scientific data in 2028.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Despite its name, most people can see around six stars with the naked eye, although many more become visible through binoculars or a telescope.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
There is the famous example of the philosopher Cremonini, who, despite being a close friend of Galileo, refused to look through his telescope.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
They hope for advanced training and better telescopes and eyepieces to enhance visitors' experience.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
They position telescopes for the night's planets and constellations before guiding visitors from local homestays.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
For what is strange about these ten telescopes is that they were too good for their obvious, military, use.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
The result, “Conical Intersect,” was a giant tunnel that telescoped down through the building, widening as it went.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 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
And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.
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
Etienne raises the heavy telescoping antenna alongside the line of the chimney.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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