telescope
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Other purchases included designer kitchenware, multiple pairs of shoes, expensive pens and a £1,200 space telescope.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, oversees telescope and mission operations, while Lockheed Martin Space in Denver also supports operations.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
They are also working to improve how telescope time is used and to enhance the instrument's performance for future discoveries.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
There, Lowell convinced himself that alien-built canals crisscrossed the Martian surface, though anyone who has observed Mars with a similar telescope knows it’s hard to see much detail at all.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
The central problem, however, was simple: How could one look through a powerful telescope at a tiny, distant object and make reliable observations while on a ship bouncing about on the waves?
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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