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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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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

The meteors will be visible with the naked eye, with no binoculars or telescope required.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

A successful mission to raise its orbit or enhance its systems could allow the historic telescope to continue exploring the universe well beyond its currently projected orbital lifetime.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Hubble's ability to detect visible light and Webb's sensitivity to infrared light gave scientists a more complete picture of the distant objects than either telescope could have provided independently.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

My father once brought a telescope along on holiday to Cornwall.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Against that dense field of light, the distant object's faint movement was difficult for earlier telescopes and surveys to distinguish.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

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

The project aims to produce an exceptionally detailed record of the changing night sky while searching for objects that previous telescopes have been unable to detect.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

Launched in 2004, Swift was a pioneering space observatory equipped with three telescopes designed to study some of the most powerful explosions in the universe.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

It means for a start that even if these beings know we are here and are somehow able to see us in their telescopes, they’re watching light that left Earth two hundred years ago.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

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

The result, “Conical Intersect,” was a giant tunnel that telescoped down through the building, widening as it went.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2018

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 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

And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

With two telescoping sections as opposed to three, they compress to 32 inches.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2023

She walked backward for several steps, her movement inertial, tipsy, and then disappeared down the telescoping tunnel.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee


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