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telescope

[tel-uh-skohp] / ˈtɛl əˌskoʊp /




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The telescope detected the bright red dot in the very early universe, only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

By then, he said, he will have a telescope.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Since history's most powerful telescope went online in 2022, it has been spotting many extremely bright cosmic objects dubbed "little red dots" in the early universe that have baffled scientists.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

The event starts at 17:30 and features a talk from the resident astronomy expert, who will introduce Beirhope's new telescope.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

She described a Concord hotel as serving “Walden water, aesthetic tea” and “Orphic acorns by the peck,” and offering telescopes for “the gifted eyes which desire to watch the songs of the oversoul.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

"It was one of the larger amateur telescopes built at that time in the United Kingdom and now we are working to restore the floor, extend the original support," he said.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Some had waited all afternoon in sweltering heat beneath the scant shade of umbrellas, while others, the best prepared, had set up their telescopes.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

At Beetle Bank Farm in York, the York Astronomical Society had telescopes set up, while families made pinhole cameras and donned their solar glasses.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

Despite Wallace’s critique, despite the fact that other astronomers with telescopes and observing sites as good as Lowell’s could find no sign of the fabled canals, Lowell’s vision of Mars gained popular acceptance.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

From BBC Jan. 26, 2022

Her authenticity steadies the heartbeat of a film whose cuteness can sometimes grate, and whose telescoped view offers little sense of life beyond Buddy’s block.

From New York Times Nov. 11, 2021

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

At the Sirius Town Hall, the old “Mike and the Mad Dog” jingle plays, and fans in throwback Mets jerseys gather, and time has been telescoped.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2017

The entire fifty-foot pedestal telescoped downward into a spiral staircase.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

And enveloping almost every single one of those tampons is a telescoping cardboard applicator.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2023

There was an endearing, oddball quality to the program he led near the end of May, telescoping between the intimate and the grand.

From New York Times Jun. 17, 2023

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright




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