telescope
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If you have binoculars or a telescope then a few other bonus planets will also be visible this month.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026
Instead of fitting an enormous telescope or antenna inside a rocket, engineers could transport its materials into orbit and assemble the complete system there.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
The telescope travels through low Earth orbit, where traces of Earth's atmosphere create drag that slowly reduces the altitude of orbiting spacecraft.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
It did so as it announced cuts to several other particle physics and astronomy projects, including Jodrell Bank's iconic Lovell telescope.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Turning his new telescope towards Venus in 1610 he found that it had phases—proof that it too shone by reflected light.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The researchers are making Lumina available to other scientists, allowing its predictions about early cosmic structures to be compared with observations from existing and future telescopes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
By comparing Lumina's predictions with observations from JWST, Roman, and other telescopes, scientists can evaluate how well existing theories explain cosmic evolution and identify discoveries that might challenge their understanding of the universe's fundamental laws.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Their subtle structures are difficult to measure, especially with telescopes on the ground, where turbulence in Earth's atmosphere can blur fine details.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
The researchers also had to account for differences among the telescopes used to collect the observations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
There are about 10,000 craters on the near side of the Moon, visible to telescopes on Earth.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2020
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
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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
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
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
Billy also had charge of a portable altar, an olive-drab attache case with telescoping legs.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
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