Jodrell Bank Observatory

 observatory, radio telescope, interesting place

The Jodrell Bank Observatory (originally the Jodrell Bank Experimental Station, then the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories from 1966 to 1999) 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, 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. The managing director of the observatory is Professor Simon Garrington.

Jodrell Bank, is notorious for finding Sputnik, Mapping the distances on the Moon, tracking Soviet satallites during the cold war, Oh and(fictionally) Tom Baker fell to his regenration in Doctor Who!!