telescope
望远镜,重叠,重视,重型摄像机
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- : an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer. One of the two principal forms consists essentially of an objective lens set into one end of a tube and an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses set into the other end of a tube that slides into the first and through which the enlarged object is viewed directly; the other form has a concave mirror that gathers light from the object and focuses it into an adjustable eyepiece or combination of lenses through which the reflection of the object is enlarged and viewed.Compare radio telescope.
- : Astronomy. the constellation Telescopium.
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- : consisting of parts that fit and slide one within another.
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tel·e·scoped, tel·e·scop·ing.
- : to force together, one into another, or force into something else, in the manner of the sliding tubes of a jointed telescope.
- : to shorten or condense; compress: to telescope the events of five hundred years into one history lecture.
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tel·e·scoped, tel·e·scop·ing.
- : to slide together, or into something else, in the manner of the tubes of a jointed telescope.
- : to be driven one into another, as railroad cars in a collision.
- : to be or become shortened or condensed.
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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.