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http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2013/Orrery/Orrery1.jpg Giant clockwork model of solar system arrives at Jodrell Bank
25 March 2013: The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre is delighted to announce the arrival of its newest exhibit, a beautiful and unique mechanical Orrery (a moving model of the Solar System).
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2013/Planck/cosmic-microwave-background_300px.jpg Planck challenges our understanding of the Universe
21 March 2013: Europe's Planck space telescope, which University of Manchester scientists at the Jodrell Bank Observatory helped build, has compiled the most detailed map of the post-Big Bang Universe ever recorded and thrown up anomalies that current physics cannot yet explain.
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/image/jpg/antennaofALMA.jpg Celebrating completion of the ALMA Telescope
13 March 2013: Scientists, including those in the UK ALMA Regional Centre at The University of Manchester, are today celebrating the monumental achievement of the completion of ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array.
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