telescope
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Local air pollution authorities, possessing little power and even less solid science, singled out oil industries, factories, manufacturers and chemical companies, and they weren’t wrong — just looking through the opposite end of the telescope.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Flipping the telescope to the large end is not unique to this particular cohort, nor is it anything to criticize or demonize.
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
Argentina’s recent decision to pause a joint Chinese effort to construct a large radio telescope is a hopeful sign.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The telescope will search for difficult to detect near-Earth objects, including dark asteroids and comets that reflect very little visible light.
From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026
The Huygens brothers found a way to reduce chromatic aberration considerably by using a combination of two thin lenses in the eyepiece of a telescope, instead of one fat lens.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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Power Suffix: -scope
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