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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

Instead of fitting an enormous telescope or antenna inside a rocket, engineers could transport its materials into orbit and assemble the complete system there.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

It did so as it announced cuts to several other particle physics and astronomy projects, including Jodrell Bank's iconic Lovell telescope.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 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

With telescopic sights, a fine hair in the focal plane of the telescope provides a far more accurate guide to the precise alignment of a star.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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

New and upcoming telescopes are expected to collect increasingly detailed information about enormous numbers of distant galaxies, providing scientists with fresh ways to test their understanding of the early cosmos.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

By comparing Lumina's predictions with observations from JWST, Roman, and other telescopes, scientists can evaluate how well existing theories explain cosmic evolution and identify discoveries that might challenge their understanding of the universe's fundamental laws.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

There are about 10,000 craters on the near side of the Moon, visible to telescopes on Earth.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The distance between their world and that of geopolitics has telescoped, and teachers have struggled to assuage fears that this war might affect them all.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2022

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

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

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

Nevertheless, the telescoping cardboard applicator tampon is intimately familiar to almost anyone who’s had a period in the last century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Sohrab threw his arm over my shoulder and smiled into his mom’s telescoping lens.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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