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Although nearly impossible to appreciate at a human scale, such a small adjustment can make an important difference when a telescope is designed to study objects across vast cosmic distances.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The breakthrough came from the first simultaneous measurement of gaseous magnesium and silicon in an exoplanet's atmosphere, using the Gemini South telescope, part of the International Gemini Observatory, which is partially funded by the U.S.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The 82-year-old is the brains behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice that detects neutrinos -- particles with almost no mass that seldom interact with other matter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

You won't need binoculars or a telescope; the shower is best viewed with the naked eye.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Clavius and Kepler will have had no difficulty confirming immediately that Venus had phases: all they had to do was point a decent telescope in the right direction.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

By revealing these processes in remarkable detail, NASA's Chandra and its partner telescopes are helping astronomers understand the forces that shape galaxies, including our own.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

By combining observations from telescopes in Australia, the United States, India, South Africa, and space, the scientists pieced together a clearer picture of how black holes behave as they consume matter.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

These rare signals carry clues to where the neutrinos came from and the extreme conditions that produced them — allowing scientists to investigate places that ordinary telescopes cannot easily see.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

"Roman doesn't have a separate guider instrument, like other space telescopes do," Vila said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

For what is strange about these ten telescopes is that they were too good for their obvious, military, use.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

She pulled a tool from her backpack, an arm-length pole that telescoped out almost to Tall/s height.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

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

She walked backward for several steps, her movement inertial, tipsy, and then disappeared down the telescoping tunnel.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee