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Jodrell Bank Observatory
View on map:53.236250°N 2.307139°W
Description
Jodrell Bank Observatory
The
Jodrell Bank Observatory
(originally the
Jodrell Bank Experimental Station
and from 1966 to 1999, the
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories
;
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/
) hosts a number of
radio telescopes
, and is part of the
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
at the
University of Manchester
. The
observatory
was established in 1945 by
Bernard Lovell
, a radio astronomer at the University of Manchester to investigate
cosmic rays
after his work on
radar
during the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of
meteors
,
quasars
,
pulsars
,
masers
and
gravitational lenses
, and was heavily involved with the tracking of
space probes
at the start of the
Space Age
. The managing director of the observatory is Professor Simon Garrington.
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell Bank Observatory
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