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http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2013/SKAHQ/Figure1.jpg New headquarters for world's largest radio telescope
7 May 2013: Less than a year after the decision to site the revolutionary Square Kilometre Array (SKA) in Southern Africa and Australia, the SKA Organisation has opened its new international headquarters at Jodrell Bank.
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2013/Betelgeuse/Figure3.png Mysterious hot spots observed in a cool red supergiant
25 April 2013: Astronomers have released a new image of the outer atmosphere of Betelgeuse - one of the nearest red supergiants to Earth - revealing the detailed structure of the matter being thrown off by the star.
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2013/KACST/telescope_400px.jpg Collaboration between the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and the University of Manchester
15 April 2013: A collaboration has been formed between the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
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