Mandel's particular obsession is imaging: using long exposures to make pictures of celestial bodies--like his shot of the Veil Nebula supernova remnant, which cannot be seen merely by gazing through a telescope.

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The best time to gaze at the Moon through a telescope is when it is in a phase that is less than full, when the shadows along the terminator reveal in greatest detail the depression of craters.

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We can celebrate and lift up and spotlight researchers and scientists like the ones here today, so that somewhere, a boy on an Army base, or a girl looking through a telescope, or a young scientist working out of a converted bathroom can make it their goal to stand where these honorees will be standing when they receive their medals.

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For regions in darkness, it should have remained visible until about midnight through good binoculars or a telescope.

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For example, much of the world will be able to see the space station Mir without a telescope through the end of August.

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If Dr. Seuss can get me to lighten up, I can often gain an entirely new perspective (like looking through the wrong end of a telescope).

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I've heard patients describe this experience as being like looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope, so that everything seems smaller and distorted.

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