A type of telescope
Our answer book holds 45 answers to “A type of telescope”, from the first thing anyone would say to names almost nobody would think of. Most people go straight for Radio Telescope, Space Telescope or Refracting Telescope, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 9 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Astronomers name far more things than the news ever mentions, which leaves plenty of room above the crowd. You will find it in stage 23, “Lens & Dish”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Radio Telescope
- Space Telescope
- Refracting Telescope
- Reflecting Telescope
- Optical Telescope
- Newtonian
- Infrared Telescope
- X-ray Telescope
- Dobsonian
- Cassegrain
- Schmidt-Cassegrain
- Solar Telescope
- Gamma-ray Telescope
- Ultraviolet Telescope
- Maksutov
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 45 we know. They score the least. The other 30, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 45 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 6 |
| THE CROWD | 14 |
| SOME | 8 |
| A FEW | 8 |
| ALMOST NOBODY | 7 |
| ONLY YOU | 2 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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