telescope
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Four were visible to the naked eye, while Saturn sat low on the horizon and Uranus and Neptune required a telescope.
From BBC
The research team used data from South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope, one of the most powerful radio observatories in the world, made up of 64 interconnected dishes.
From Science Daily
Only about 1 percent of stars are known to host massive planets or brown dwarfs that can be directly photographed with today's telescopes.
From Science Daily
The pre-Revolutionary era aligned with advances in knowledge of the heavenly bodies, sparked by telescopes and a firmament not-yet-obstructed by skyscrapers and pollution.
To investigate the system more closely, Stuber's team used interferometry, a method that combines light from multiple telescopes to simulate a much larger one.
From Science Daily
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