Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope in Cheshire

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Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope is a British observatory that 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 Sir Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the University of Manchester who wanted 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.

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Location: Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
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