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Telescope:

Device that permits distant and faint objects to be viewed as if they were much brighter and closer to the observer. Telescopes are typically used to observe the skies.

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Telescope, device that permits distant and faint objects to be viewed as if they were much brighter and closer to the observer. Telescopes are...

Galileo, first astronomical use of the telescope

Galileo, first astronomical use of the telescope (Culver Pictures)

Galileo (1564-1642), Italian physicist and astronomer who, with German astronomer Johannes Kepler, initiated the scientific revolution that...

George Ellery Hale, first giant reflecting telescope

Hale, George Ellery (1868-1938), American astronomer, born in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While...

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- device for looking at distant objects: a device for making distant objects appear nearer and larger by means of compound lenses or concave mirrors
- collapse neatly inside one another: to slide neatly one inside another like the sections of a telescope
- condense something: to make something shorter in...

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