English-Danish translations for telescope

• teleskop
  Man er for længst ophørt med at sende rumsonder til månen, og den videre udforskning af rummet kan takket være de stadig bedre teleskoper foretages fra jorden. Trips to the moon have been a thing of the past for a long time, and further space discoveries can also be made from Earth, thanks to ever improved telescopes.
  Holdt det møder med nogle af de medlemsstater, der er ansvarlige for teleskopets placering. Did it hold any meetings with any of those Member States responsible for deciding on the location of the telescope?
• kikkert
  De ved bedre end jeg, at den store italienske videnskabsmand Galileo Galilei betragtede himlen fra jorden med sin kikkert. As you know better than me, Galileo Galilei, the great Italian scientist, used to study the sky with his telescope from the earth.

Definition of telescope

• A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy
• To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope
• To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another

Related words

• hypertelescope
• radio telescope
• space telescope
• Schmidt telescope
• X-ray telescope
• refracting telescope
• reflecting telescope
• Dobsonian telescope
• Newtonian telescope