Space

TELESCOPE

A telescope is an instrument that gathers and magnifies distant light to observe faraway objects. Galileo Galilei was among the first to turn one toward the heavens in 1609, discovering Jupiter's moons. The word combines the Greek 'tele' (far) and 'skopein' (to look).

TELESCOPE is the kind of word that shows up in themed word searches like Strands. Themed puzzles group words like this under a shared category — here, Space.