telescope

The 82-year-old is the brains behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice that detects neutrinos -- particles with almost no mass that seldom interact with other matter.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

These women - all in their late 20s - grew up watching these stars, but it was only a few years ago that they learnt to study them through a telescope.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

“The beauty of anthropology for me is that I can telescope out and try to understand what’s happening to society right now,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Previous reliable measurements of hydrogen at these distances generally required astronomers to combine radio telescope observations with data from optical galaxy surveys.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The boundary of the observable universe is not merely the farthest distance our telescopes can currently reach.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

They hope for advanced training and better telescopes and eyepieces to enhance visitors' experience.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

By night, they set up telescopes, trace constellations with laser pointers and explain what visitors are seeing in the dark skies.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Studying them can require many hours of observing time on some of the world's most capable telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

When seventeenth-century European sailors first saw the southern skies they put objects of seventeenth- century interest in the heavens—toucans and peacocks, telescopes and microscopes, compasses and the sterns of ships.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

As a workaround, Erika Vetter plays a younger version of the marquise, enacting a telescoped version of her life.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2023

But this time around, in Burkina Faso, the timetable has telescoped.

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

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

If everything can be telescoped on to him, that would be better all round.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017

She pulled a tool from her backpack, an arm-length pole that telescoped out almost to Tall/s height.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

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

In addition to telescoping time, then, identities could actively use temporal displacement in their communication.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

Etienne raises the heavy telescoping antenna alongside the line of the chimney.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr