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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

No telescope or binoculars will be necessary to enjoy the sight.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

The telescope travels through low Earth orbit, where traces of Earth's atmosphere create drag that slowly reduces the altitude of orbiting spacecraft.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 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

Kepler had described his snowflakes as like little stars; now, everywhere he turned his telescope he found them, thick enough to make a snowstorm.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Dark matter is an invisible form of matter that does not emit or reflect light, making it impossible to observe directly with conventional telescopes.

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

By combining the observations from both telescopes, the researchers reconstructed the structure of Betelgeuse's outer layers, beginning just above its visible surface and extending outward to several times its radius.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

The Club House sits in tired dilapidation, its roof no longer safe for telescopes.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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

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

This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Billy also had charge of a portable altar, an olive-drab attache case with telescoping legs.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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