telescope

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

People could also watch safely by projecting an image of the sun onto a white card using a telescope, a cereal box pinhole viewer, or even a kitchen colander.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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

Coverage will include telescope views and drone footage of the eclipse, along with Maggie and Carole's reactions as they witness the event.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026

From this evidence it would appear that it was the telescope that killed off Ptolemaic astronomy.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

Aston said he set up two telescopes for his neighbours to view the eclipse through which had "queues of people lined up", who wanted to get photos of the phenomenon.

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

Large telescopes are cumbersome things, and much of their operational time is consumed with being maneuvered into position.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

As a workaround, Erika Vetter plays a younger version of the marquise, enacting a telescoped version of her life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

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 windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

There was an endearing, oddball quality to the program he led near the end of May, telescoping between the intimate and the grand.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut