View example sentences, synonyms and word forms for Telescope.

Telescope

Telescope | Telescopes

Telescope meaning

A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy. | Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope). | A retractable tubular support for lights.

Example sentences (20)

NASA awarded funding in 2020 to a similar telescope idea, called the Lunar Crater Radio Telescope, which would see the construction of an -like telescope in a natural crater on the far side of the Moon.

Bradley's classical explanation Figure 2: As light propagates down the telescope, the telescope moves requiring a tilt to the telescope that depends on the speed of light.

However, several telescope manufacturers have recently developed telescope systems that are calibrated with the use of built-in GPS, decreasing the time it takes to set up a telescope at the start of an observing session.

ESO operates ground-based telescopes in Chile including the Very Large Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, and the New Technology Telescope.

Perhaps the Hubble Space Telescope’s measurements had been inaccurate due to the limitations of the telescope, which might explain the different figures, and this new tool could help to show if that was the case.

The Virtual Telescope Project in Rome, Italy, will be broadcasting views of comet C/2022 E3 ZTF through a huge telescope.

Weight and portability matter when it comes to purchasing a telescope, and a telescope that's too big or heavy to carry probably won't get used much, unless you're planning to park it in a room, pointed out the window forever.

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope first revealed theses hot bubbles in 2010; the telescope observed mysterious structures emitting higher-energy gamma rays than the rest of the Milky Way’s disk.

All technical indicators of the telescope have reached or exceeded the planned level, and its performance is world-leading, Shen Zhulin, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said at the opening of the telescope.

A new initiative has been launched by the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScl) in Baltimore, Maryland, using the Hubble Space Telescope called ULLYSES, which stands for UV Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards.

An image of the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico taken by a SkySat satellite Aug. 10 shows the hole in the telescope's dish caused by a cable that broke earlier that day.

Astronomers observed these changes, called transit timing variations, with the NASA Kepler space telescope, which detected the precise times when Kepler-88 b crossed (or transited) between the star and the telescope.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is the opposite.

Citizens and scientists alike, inspired by the discoveries and images the telescope had produced, clearly weren’t ready for the telescope’s premature retirement.

Exploring the nature of dark energy is one of the primary reasons NASA is building the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), a space telescope whose measurements will help illuminate the dark energy puzzle.

For the last few years, NASA has been quietly working away on a new space telescope even more advanced than the Hubble Space Telescope.

The telescope is part of a large project known as the Cherenkov Telescope Array, which will be composed of hundreds of similar telescopes to be situated in the Canary Islands and Chile.

First proposed in 1995, the Next Generation Space Telescope, as it was then known, was intended to follow in the footsteps of the Hubble Space Telescope, extending astronomers’ reach almost all the way back to the big bang birth of the cosmos.

At the beginning of the 21st century, when the northern polar region came into view, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Keck telescope initially observed neither a collar nor a polar cap in the northern hemisphere.

Bradley's explanation cannot account for situations such as the water telescope, nor for many other optical effects (such as interference) that might occur within the telescope.