telescope
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"The telescope detects many more faint galaxies in the same patch of sky, and the distances to those galaxies are measured far more precisely," he said.
From Science Daily • May 12, 2026
With a telescope you could not find a Hearts fan who does not believe now.
From BBC • May 4, 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 telescope will send 11 terabytes of data a day down to Earth, said Mark Melton, a systems engineer at Goddard Space Flight Center.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
The telescope, for instance, had given scientists the ability to find moons and stars that had never been observed before.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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