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At around magnitude 8, the distant planet is too dim to spot without optical assistance, so binoculars or a telescope will be needed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has vowed to save the UK's largest telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Roman telescope is also expected to locate more planets beyond our solar system, some of which could hold life like our own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Roman was initially projected to come in over budget, but a significant course correction helped the telescope launch on budget and ahead of schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Using observations of Venus together with radiative-transfer modeling, the scientists estimated how strongly the liquid inside the planet's cloud droplets would need to absorb ultraviolet and blue light to match what spacecraft and telescopes observe.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

As a member of NASA’s class of “flagship” astrophysics missions, its acclaimed colleagues include the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

Aston said he set up two telescopes for his neighbours to view the eclipse through which had "queues of people lined up", who wanted to get photos of the phenomenon.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Sometimes such radio telescopes are connected with telescopes on the other side of the Earth, forming a baseline comparable to the Earth’s diameter—in a certain sense, a telescope as large as the planet.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

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

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

There was an endearing, oddball quality to the program he led near the end of May, telescoping between the intimate and the grand.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 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