Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics

Christmas at Jodrell Bank

1st-23rd December

Enjoy a visit to Jodrell Bank, experience the unique Lovell Radio Telescope, wander around the Arboretum and take a Journey to Mars in the 3D Theatre. Sit down to a wonderful home cooked two or three course Christmas lunch.

The Lovell Telescope

Radio eye on the universe

The 76-m Lovell Telescope is the world's third largest, fully-steerable radio telescope and has stood proudly over the plains of Cheshire since 1957.

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.

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.

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.