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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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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

"It's exciting that we discovered a thin stellar stream around a galaxy other than our own with already-existing Hubble Space Telescope data and confirmed it with ground-based telescope data," Starkenburg said.

From Science Daily Aug. 24, 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

Keele Observatory astronomer James Albinson is volunteering to use his expertise to help build the new dome and telescope.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

In surveying, the earth was firm beneath your telescope.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

"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

The path of the total eclipse began at the northern tip of Siberia in Russia, far away from crowds and telescopes.

From BBC Aug. 12, 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

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

An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2020

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

And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.

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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