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As an exoplanet passes in front of its star, some starlight travels through the outer edges of its atmosphere before reaching the telescope.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Murriyang radio telescope, located in Parkes, New South Wales, helped track Mariner 2 in 1962.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

"If one of us takes even a single day off, the families ask why the telescope was not set up," she jokes.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Galileo’s first telescope had a usable magnification of 8x; by the beginning of 1610 he had managed to produce one that had a magnification of 3 ox and he had begun to explore the heavens.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

By combining observations from telescopes in Australia, the United States, India, South Africa, and space, the scientists pieced together a clearer picture of how black holes behave as they consume matter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

According to the researchers, the necessary spectral resolution for this kind of analysis is currently available only through ground-based telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

They position telescopes for the night's planets and constellations before guiding visitors from local homestays.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Radio telescopes generate, in narrow frequency ranges, signals so intense they can be detected over immense interstellar distances.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

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 entire fifty-foot pedestal telescoped downward into a spiral staircase.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

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

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright