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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics comprises research activities in astronomy and astrophysics at The University of Manchester, the world leading facilities of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, the MERLIN/VLBI National Facility, the Development Office of the Square Kilometre Array, and the Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre.

Features

The Control Room during the First Light celebration

Behind the Scenes

The Control Room is where the duty controller takes responsibility for the giant 76m Lovell Telescope and our other telescopes. Take a virtual behind-the-scenes tour of the observatory.

The Sun

Our Local Star

Our nearest star may be a familiar sight in the daytime sky but it still holds many mysteries. At Jodrell Bank we study the complex interactions between plasma and magnetic fields in the solar corona.

Simulated fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background as will be seen by the Planck spacecraft

Cosmology

At Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics we study fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, allowing us to probe the Universe at early times and make deductions about fundamental processes in cosmology.

AOS Interferometer. CREDIT: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alvaro Quintana and Jose Olivares (ALMA)

First fringes with ALMA

A team of astronomers and engineers at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array have made the first observations linking radio signals from two telescopes in the array.

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