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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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Operating with a telescope at Palomar Observatory in California, ZTF repeatedly photographs large sections of the night sky.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 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

The ability to anticipate these eruptions may become particularly useful for major future observatories, including the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project, which is expected to begin collecting scientific data in 2028.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

You don't need binoculars or a telescope to see meteors, just give your eyes sometime to adjust to looking up at the night sky.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

They then directed several telescopes toward the system, ZTF J0440+2325, to investigate its properties in greater detail.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

These observations, which use the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, give a higher value of around 73 km/s/Mpc.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

The boundary of the observable universe is not merely the farthest distance our telescopes can currently reach.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

"From nine in the evening, we begin setting up the telescopes for the night's stargazing sessions."

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

If telescopes with a magnification of 20X had had a practical application, they would have had them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 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 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

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 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




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