Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

Some of the Jodrell Planck team celebrating the launch in May 2009. Photo: Mike Peel

Planck Spacecraft

We constructed the front-end modules for the 30 and 44 GHz radiometers onboard the European Space Agency's Planck Spacecraft. Planck is now performing a full sky survey.

e-MERLIN

Operated by The University of Manchester on behalf of STFC, e-MERLIN is an array of seven radio telescopes distributed across the UK with a resolution greater than the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astro Kids Day

Tuesday 30th March

A special event for children aged 7 to 10 years. The 45 minute session includes a tour of the Solar System in our Inflatable Planetarium followed by a Journey to Mars in the 3D theatre.

Jodrell Bank engineer Phil Clarke - Photo by Ed Swinden

Engineering

Engineers at Jodrell Bank Observatory needed more than just a jack and a brace when a steel tyre on the famous Lovell radio telescope cracked.

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.