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The telescope is already enclosed inside Falcon Heavy's protective fairing, the shell that surrounds a spacecraft during launch and shields it from aerodynamic forces and the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Keele Observatory astronomer James Albinson is volunteering to use his expertise to help build the new dome and telescope.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Hevelius, who lived in Danzig, Poland, built one enormous telescope 150 feet long.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Those findings helped set the stage for more detailed observations with NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 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

It had an observatory and planetarium and featured custom-built domes, specialized solar-observation telescopes, and a natural science education centre.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

Some had waited all afternoon in sweltering heat beneath the scant shade of umbrellas, while others, the best prepared, had set up their telescopes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

This solarium didn't have any scientific apparatus in it, though its skylights were big enough for telescopes.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

When a human being is fed upon and consumed by one of them, especially in Africa, the event is telescoped against horizons of space and time, and takes on a feeling of immense antiquity.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

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

I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles