telescope
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To address these obstacles, a team led by Airi Toida and Prof. Yuichiro Ezoe of Tokyo Metropolitan University has proposed using a compact X-ray telescope on a satellite orbiting the Moon.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
By contrast, the team's compact telescope was originally designed for studying Earth's magnetosphere and weighs less than ten kilograms.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Their detailed modeling, which included both the telescope detector and a realistic Moon orbiting satellite mission, suggests that one telescope could map five important elements in about two years.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Because the telescope is so compact, the team also examined a satellite carrying a five by five array of telescopes.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
Having observed the moon, Galileo turned his telescope to Jupiter and discovered that Jupiter had moons.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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