telescope
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Instead of requesting new telescope time, Mason examined observations that had originally been collected for unrelated astronomy research.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
It also shows how existing telescope archives could be reused to search for possible signs of technology without requiring entirely new observing campaigns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The Lovell Telescope, once the largest radio telescope in the world, is a key part of a system of six other telescopes in England that make up the e-Merlin network.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Despite its age, continuous upgrades have kept the Lovell telescope at the cutting edge of astronomical research.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The essay on optics described the workings of the eye and suggested ways to improve the telescope.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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The Lovell Telescope has been overtaken in size by larger radio telescopes, but has continuously been modernised and remains key to the UK's radio astronomy capability.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The size of the Lovell Telescope allows it to detect signals that are extremely weak, while the other telescopes at the site help scientists paint a more detailed picture.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Joined together these UK telescopes can zoom into objects in deep space and see them in incredible detail - with similar resolution to the Hubble space telescope.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
But as telescopes and observations have become more precise, researchers have uncovered several puzzling features that the standard model struggles to explain.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beyond the plaza lay the glittering channel, brilliant in the sunlight and choppy with white-capped waves, and beyond that the wooded shore, where Mr. Benedict’s telescopes were going to be hidden.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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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
If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017
The entire fifty-foot pedestal telescoped downward into a spiral staircase.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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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
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
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