telescope
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The telescope detected the bright red dot in the very early universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Webb is the largest and most powerful telescope ever launched into space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Alternative methods for viewing the eclipse include using a solar telescope or making a pinhole projector.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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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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
He said his telescopes allowed people to see the solar event in detail, including craters on the moon.
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
The club warned people not to attempt to look through binoculars or telescopes which did not have proper solar filters as they could collect more light than the human eye could cope with, risking blindness.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Galileo now rushed to publish his discoveries, which transformed astronomy in the space of a few months—the time it took for others to acquire telescopes with which they could corroborate his findings.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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
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
Whether it’s Tetrised inside a delivery truck, cradling a cappuccino or telescoping over a tampon, cardboard is a paradox.
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
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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