8 sentences with 'telescope'
Example sentences and phrases with the word telescope and other words derived from it.
• « Galileo built a telescope based on a description he had heard and delighted in discovering previously unknown aspects of celestial bodies, such as the fact that the moon and the sun did not have smooth, perfect surfaces, and that Jupiter had moons of its own. »
• « Galileo publicly demonstrated his telescope and quickly became well known among the educated elites throughout Europe. »
• « Newton personally designed and built a new and more effective type of telescope, and wrote the founding document for the modern science of optics. »
• « As a salesman in a photo shop, I was showing a telescope to a customer who had recently become interested in stargazing. »
• « I explained that he could attach his camera to the telescope to take pictures of his celestial findings. »
• « During his time at Oxford, Stephen Hawking took a summer course at Greenwich Royal Observatory with the then astronomer royal, Sir Richard Woolley, whom he assisted in an investigation of binary stars. However, looking through the telescope and seeing just a couple of indistinct blobs, he became convinced that theoretical cosmology was much more interesting. »
• « Two young American researchers directed a radio telescope into the skies over New Jersey and detected a faint, mysterious hiss of radiation, with a wavelength of about a millimetre, filling the universe: the agonising echo of the creation of everything we know and more. »
• « On this intergalactic journey, what we see from all angles is Saturn's famous ring system, which we have seen (not so closely, of course) from Earth, even with the smallest telescope. »