telescope
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These women - all in their late 20s - grew up watching these stars, but it was only a few years ago that they learnt to study them through a telescope.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Because the telescope observes from space, it can capture sharper images across complete rotations of Saturn without the blurring caused by Earth's atmosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Lovell telescope, which has stood in Cheshire since 1957, is the world's third-largest steerable radio telescope.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
The Roman telescope is also expected to locate more planets beyond our solar system, some of which could hold life like our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
As I turn the dial, my view through the telescope magnifies.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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Wrapped in thick jackets, woollen caps and gloves, tourists and visitors gather to see the Milky Way and look through telescopes at planets, the Moon and distant stars.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Grizedale Observatory near Ambleside, Cumbria, opened in May 2024, offering public access to telescopes, a planetarium and meteorite laboratory, as well as staging a dark skies festival and other events.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The researchers combined data from telescopes in America, Australia, India, South Africa, and space.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
"We usually hear about telescopes working separately, but this confirmation was possible only by using multiple telescopes together," Bernardi said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 17, 2026
Radio telescopes can detect very faint, very distant objects.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
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
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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
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
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
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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