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In the four centuries since humans first pointed their telescopes at Mars, no eruption has been seen, leading to the assumption that it’s volcanically dead.

The CHEOPS observations confirmed intermediate work from other telescopes, and eventually a collaboration of roughly 200 astronomers managed to piece together a more complete picture of the system.

Ordinarily, we point telescopes at some object we want to see in greater detail.

Together, these telescopes will provide unprecedented views of the sun, helping to solve some of the most enduring mysteries of our star.

They allowed me to get toys that were clever, even though we couldn’t afford them — mechanical toys and telescopes.

Williams did it with me several times, for instance when I mentioned the Hubble Space Telescope.

The instrument is attached to the Anglo-Australian Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, northwest of Sydney, Australia.

The Swift telescope is designed to detect any amount of extra high-energy light, then turn to locate the source.

If you live in a place with a dark night sky, you might be able to see M31 without a telescope.

But the results coming out of BOSS are beautiful, even if the telescope is hideous.

Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

To spy out the land with a naval telescope over a mile of sea means taking a lot on trust as we learned to our cost on April 25th.

These instruments were of a simple nature, for the magnifying glass was not yet contrived, and so the telescope was impossible.

With the telescope somewhere near a hundred million are brought within the limits of vision.

He put his canvas telescope down, and placed a heavy foot on it for safety.

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On this page you'll find 155 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to telescope, such as: abbreviate, constrict, cram, restrict, shorten, and shrink.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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