Telescope
noun
A tool for making far away things look closer and bigger.
She looked at the stars through her telescope.
Often appears as...
- look through a telescope
- astronomical telescope
verb
To slide one inside another, like parts of a telescope.
The car accident caused the vehicles to telescope into each other.
Often appears as...
- telescope into each other
- telescope together
verb
To decrease quickly in size, amount, or importance until almost nothing remains.
Because of the economic crisis, the country's budget had been telescoped to practically nothing.
Often appears as...
- telescope down
- telescope into
verb
To represent or explain a long process or period of time in a short way.
The film tries to telescope twenty years of history into 90 minutes.
Often appears as...
- telescope into
- telescope through
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Literary
noun
A tool for making far away things look closer and bigger.
She looked at the stars through her telescope.
Often appears as...
- look through a telescope
- astronomical telescope
verb
To slide one inside another, like parts of a telescope.
The car accident caused the vehicles to telescope into each other.
Often appears as...
- telescope into each other
- telescope together
verb
To decrease quickly in size, amount, or importance until almost nothing remains.
Because of the economic crisis, the country's budget had been telescoped to practically nothing.
Often appears as...
- telescope down
- telescope into
verb
To represent or explain a long process or period of time in a short way.
The film tries to telescope twenty years of history into 90 minutes.
Often appears as...
- telescope into
- telescope through
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Astronomy Context
Telescopes are primarily associated with astronomy and observing celestial bodies.
Astronomy enthusiasts gathered to peer at the comet through a powerful telescope.
Pro Tip 2/3Magnification Power
Different telescopes vary in power; stronger ones can see more distant or fainter objects.
He used a high-powered telescope to capture details of Jupiter's storms.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Instrument
Telescopes are important scientific instruments for research, not just for casual viewing.
The new space telescope will provide data for groundbreaking research.
Pro Tip 1/3Astronomy Context
Telescopes are primarily associated with astronomy and observing celestial bodies.
Astronomy enthusiasts gathered to peer at the comet through a powerful telescope.
Pro Tip 2/3Magnification Power
Different telescopes vary in power; stronger ones can see more distant or fainter objects.
He used a high-powered telescope to capture details of Jupiter's storms.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Instrument
Telescopes are important scientific instruments for research, not just for casual viewing.
The new space telescope will provide data for groundbreaking research.
Pro Tip 1/3Astronomy Context
Telescopes are primarily associated with astronomy and observing celestial bodies.
Astronomy enthusiasts gathered to peer at the comet through a powerful telescope.
Pro Tip 2/3Magnification Power
Different telescopes vary in power; stronger ones can see more distant or fainter objects.
He used a high-powered telescope to capture details of Jupiter's storms.
Pro Tip 3/3Scientific Instrument
Telescopes are important scientific instruments for research, not just for casual viewing.
The new space telescope will provide data for groundbreaking research.
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Africa’s Astronomical...
we need to do it for nearby stars however there's a big coincidence and that is is that if we look at the evolution of telescopes then what we see is that we've been making them bigger and bigger to see farther and farther and deeper and deeper into the universe take these famous telescopes here here's
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Are There Aliens on...
There's something seriously weird going on that perhaps, perhaps this is life. And that just blew me away. It was so exciting. So you can see that really they look very like each other. So it was a robust result, two telescopes, nothing to do with each other, saw the same thing.
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What light can teach us...
from any object observed with a telescope, we can learn what it's made of, how hot it is and how much pressure it's under, as well as whether it's moving, in what direction and how fast. And these six measurements, like six points of light, reveal the history of the universe.
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Should we be looking for...
and even the largest are just fuzzy patches in the fields of high-powered telescopes. But if one of these planets is close in size to the Earth and orbits not too close and too far away from its parent star, it could be rocky and warm enough to have oceans and perhaps life.
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The wacky history of...
is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item
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How to detect a...
Aided by some distance and direction information from the neutrino detectors, the amateur astronomers and scientists alike will scan the skies and share information to quickly identify the new galactic supernova and turn the world's major telescopes in that direction.
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What happens when our...
Think about Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are, and they'll be doing so on digital timescales. What this means is basically a telescoping of the future.
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Why neutrinos matter -...
has given us increasingly energetic and continuously surprising views of the universe. We are now at the dawn of the age of neutrino astronomy, and we have no idea what revelations IceCube and other neutrino telescopes may bring us
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How do we study the...
Studying different wavelengths not only gives us a more complete picture of any single object but also different views of the universe. For this reason, astrophysicists use several different kinds of telescopes
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Replying to the Wow...
back using the biggest radio telescope we can get our hands on arthur c clarke famously said either we are alone in the universe or we are not both are equally terrifying in that
Video examples
Africa’s Astronomical...
we need to do it for nearby stars however there's a big coincidence and that is is that if we look at the evolution of telescopes then what we see is that we've been making them bigger and bigger to see farther and farther and deeper and deeper into the universe take these famous telescopes here here's
Video examples
Are There Aliens on...
There's something seriously weird going on that perhaps, perhaps this is life. And that just blew me away. It was so exciting. So you can see that really they look very like each other. So it was a robust result, two telescopes, nothing to do with each other, saw the same thing.
Video examples
What light can teach us...
from any object observed with a telescope, we can learn what it's made of, how hot it is and how much pressure it's under, as well as whether it's moving, in what direction and how fast. And these six measurements, like six points of light, reveal the history of the universe.
Video examples
Should we be looking for...
and even the largest are just fuzzy patches in the fields of high-powered telescopes. But if one of these planets is close in size to the Earth and orbits not too close and too far away from its parent star, it could be rocky and warm enough to have oceans and perhaps life.
Video examples
The wacky history of...
is said to have come up with the first compound microscope, along with the first telescope. Both claims are often disputed, as apparently he wasn't the only bored guy with a ton of glass lenses to play with at the time. Despite this, the microscope soon became a hot item
Video examples
How to detect a...
Aided by some distance and direction information from the neutrino detectors, the amateur astronomers and scientists alike will scan the skies and share information to quickly identify the new galactic supernova and turn the world's major telescopes in that direction.
Video examples
What happens when our...
Think about Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make. Machines will then be better at inventing than we are, and they'll be doing so on digital timescales. What this means is basically a telescoping of the future.
Video examples
Why neutrinos matter -...
has given us increasingly energetic and continuously surprising views of the universe. We are now at the dawn of the age of neutrino astronomy, and we have no idea what revelations IceCube and other neutrino telescopes may bring us
Video examples
How do we study the...
Studying different wavelengths not only gives us a more complete picture of any single object but also different views of the universe. For this reason, astrophysicists use several different kinds of telescopes
Video examples
Replying to the Wow...
back using the biggest radio telescope we can get our hands on arthur c clarke famously said either we are alone in the universe or we are not both are equally terrifying in that
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Irish Scientist
We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.
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Edwin Powell Hubble
American Scientist
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
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Dr. Seuss
American Writer
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
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John C. Mather
American Scientist
We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
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Andrea M. Ghez
American Scientist
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
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Sandra Faber
American Scientist
Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Irish Scientist
We live inside our universe and cannot get a bird's-eye view of it from outside. And we cannot even see all of our universe. Distant parts of it are expanding away from us so fast that they are invisible; they go faster than the speed of light. Having bigger telescopes to see fainter stars will not help us here: invisible is truly invisible.
Quote examples
Edwin Powell Hubble
American Scientist
We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.
Quote examples
Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.
Quote examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.
Quote examples
Dr. Seuss
American Writer
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Quote examples
Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Quote examples
John C. Mather
American Scientist
We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.
Quote examples
Andrea M. Ghez
American Scientist
The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.
Quote examples
Sandra Faber
American Scientist
Hubble is the most important telescope in history after Galileo's first telescope.
Quote examples
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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