Jodrell Bank Observatory In Bid To Become UNESCO World Heritage Site
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[The Lovell Telescope is a radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory, near Goostrey, Cheshire in the north-west of England. When it was constructed in 1955, the telescope was the largest steerable dish radio telescope in the world at 76.2 m (250 ft) in diameter; it is now the third largest, after the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, USA, and the Effelsberg telescope in Germany. It was originally known as the 250 ft (76 m) telescope or the Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, before becoming the Mark I telescope around 1961 when future telescopes (the Mark II, III, and IV) were being discussed. It was renamed to the Lovell Telescope in 1987 after Bernard Lovell, and became a Grade I listed building in 1988. The telescope forms part of the MERLIN and European VLBI Network arrays of radio telescopes]. – Wikipedia
The Lovell Telescope listens to the night sky for radio signals from space at Jodrell Bank on June 22, 2011 in Holmes Chapel, England. Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and its world famous Lovell Telescope is on the shortlist of Britains submission for Unesco World Heritage Site status. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Engineers carry out maintenance on the focus box inside the 76 metre dish of the the Lovell Telescope on June 21, 2011 in Holmes Chapel, England. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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