telescope

With planets this dim, the telescope may receive only a single particle of light once every minute.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Massive teams of engineers and scientists — including personnel from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — have worked for over a decade to develop the $4.3-billion telescope.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Together with specialized ground support equipment, the fairing also keeps the telescope in a controlled environment as teams move it between facilities.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Swift space telescope, which studies the most powerful explosions in the universe, will now likely plunge back to earth and disintegrate along the way later this year.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

The telescope and the microscope do exactly the same thing: they turn atoms into mountains, and, if you look through the other end, mountains into atoms.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

As a member of NASA’s class of “flagship” astrophysics missions, its acclaimed colleagues include the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

"That makes it very promising for the new telescopes becoming available, including the Roman Space Telescope, which can see an area 100-times larger than that of the Hubble."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

We can now make out finer detail on it than the largest telescopes on Earth have ever obtained.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

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

She walks beside her father with her cane telescoped in one fist, her other hand on his rucksack, everything disconnected from logic, as in nightmares.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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

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

Etienne raises the heavy telescoping antenna alongside the line of the chimney.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr