telescope
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"The telescope detects many more faint galaxies in the same patch of sky, and the distances to those galaxies are measured far more precisely," he said.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
With a telescope you could not find a Hearts fan who does not believe now.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
There, Lowell convinced himself that alien-built canals crisscrossed the Martian surface, though anyone who has observed Mars with a similar telescope knows it’s hard to see much detail at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Thanks to its infrared vision, the telescope will be able to observe light emitted by celestial bodies billions of years ago, effectively looking back in time to hopefully discover more about the two phenomena.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
One of the things Galileo also observed around this time, using a telescope, was dark features on the face of the Sun—sunspots.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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