telescope

Also known as telescopes

thumb|The 100-inch (2.54 m) Hooker reflecting telescope at [[Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles, used by Edwin Hubble to measure galaxy redshifts and discover the general expansion of the universe.]]

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A telescope is a man-made object classified under the OpenStreetMap tag "man_made=telescope." It is represented by the Unicode character "🔭." The subject has an inception date of 1607.

Resources related to telescopes are organized in the Commons category "Telescopes" and the Commons gallery "Telescope." In academic literature, the query "telescope" yields a count of 9258 results in PubMed. Additionally, the topic is referenced by 2,072 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Research

9,258 papers

Subaru Telescope -History, active/adaptive optics, instruments, and scientific achievements.ReviewProceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences · 2021Iye MDOI: 10.2183/pjab.97.019
Implantable miniature telescope (IMT) for vision loss due to end-stage age-related macular degeneration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Gupta A, Lam J, Custis P et al.DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD011140.pub2
Cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence: a telescope into future cardiovascular health.European journal of preventive cardiology · 2023Agbaje AODOI: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwac298
Video Telescope Operating Microscopy.ReviewThe veterinary clinics of North America. Exotic animal practice · 2015Divers SJDOI: 10.1016/j.cvex.2015.05.007
Does using a bioptic telescope improve visual recognition of the on-road environment?Optometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry · 2024Oberstein SL, Boon MY, Chu BS et al.DOI: 10.1097/OPX.0000000000002138
NASA's Webb telescope is an initial success - despite formidable odds.Nature · 2022DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-00153-z
A giant telescope shrouded in mystery.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Stone RDOI: 10.1126/science.adz3357
A scintillator-based range telescope for particle therapy.Physics in medicine and biology · 2020Kelleter L, Radogna R, Volz L et al.DOI: 10.1088/1361-6560/ab9415

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: invention
Subclass of: astronomical instrument
Has part: lens
Named after: aerial telescope
Image: Lunette mg 2368.jpg
Connects with: telescope mount

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Commons category: Telescopes
Unicode character: 🔭
topic's main category: Category:Telescopes
Commons gallery: Telescope
OpenStreetMap tag: man_made=telescope
inception: 1607-00-00
topic has template: Template:Infobox telescope
history of topic: history of the telescope
discoverer or inventor: Jacob Metius
described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
different from: Telescopium
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4

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Encyclopedic overview

15 sections

Contents

Etymology
History
In space
By electromagnetic spectrum
Radio and submillimeter
Infrared
Visible light
Ultraviolet
X-ray
Gamma ray
Lists of telescopes
See also
References
Further reading
External links

A telescope is a device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation. Originally, it was an optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects – an optical telescope. Nowadays, the word "telescope" is defined as a wide range of instruments capable of detecting different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, and in some cases other types of detectors.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “telescope” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.