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At around magnitude 8, the distant planet is too dim to spot without optical assistance, so binoculars or a telescope will be needed.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nasa's powerful next-generation telescope has blasted off into space from its launchpad in Florida, with a mission to explore dark energy, black holes and other mysteries of the Universe.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Roman telescope is also expected to locate more planets beyond our solar system, some of which could hold life like our own.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The rocket successfully deployed the 18,000-pound telescope about 31 minutes after launch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

There is a standard phrase that is used over and over again in the literature: ‘Galileo turned his telescope to the heavens.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Scientists hope Roman’s observations, paired with other cutting-edge space and ground-based telescopes, will help settle whether dark energy is constant, or if the recent measurements point to deeper problems in our understanding of the universe.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Those findings helped set the stage for more detailed observations with NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

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

She presses her whole weight on it, and the antenna makes a faint grating noise above the roof as it telescopes upward.

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022

LaTocha’s telescoped material history registers the onward march of human activity but also what existed long before.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 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

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

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2017

The windows had inside shutters of slatted wood which telescoped into a narrow space on either side.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

Whether it’s Tetrised inside a delivery truck, cradling a cappuccino or telescoping over a tampon, cardboard is a paradox.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

This trait formed what Ella and I came to call a telescoping process, with parts stretching back across time, marking the discontinuity between past and present, and then collapsing it.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2023

I went into uniform at the time when our enemies began to recede so fast that there had to be a hurried telescoping of military training plans.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles