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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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The European Space Agency launched the Euclid space telescope in 2023 to investigate the universe during this pivotal era.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

It will have a full-service spa and a rooftop observatory with a professional-grade telescope.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

A Nasa-funded spacecraft has been sent into space to catch a falling telescope.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

For example, engineers do not have a clear picture of what the back of the telescope actually looks like -- even though that's where the robot must latch on.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

With telescopic sights, a fine hair in the focal plane of the telescope provides a far more accurate guide to the precise alignment of a star.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

He also leads development of PypeIt, the software astronomers across the University of California use to process observations collected by the Keck telescopes.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

The observatory, which is the size of a large car, was launched in 2004, with three telescopes aboard, to study the most powerful explosions in the Universe.

From BBC Jul. 3, 2026

Perched on a hilltop beneath the Aegibong Peace Ecopark observatory where telescopes peek into the secluded state, the shop has drawn tens of thousands from South Korea and abroad since opening in November 2024.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

"There's a real concern that the researchers that use those radio telescopes will be the people that get the chop," Morgan said.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

This solarium didn't have any scientific apparatus in it, though its skylights were big enough for telescopes.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

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

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

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

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

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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