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2009 News Archive

• Jodrell Bank dragon hunt will be Christmas cracker
  22nd December 2009: It's proved Einstein's theory of relativity, tracked the launch of Sputnik and probed the origins of the Universe - now the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank is being used to find dragons.
• Chromoscope
  3rd December 2009: Astronomers from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and Cardiff University today revealed a new way for members of the public to explore the galaxy.
• Newly discovered star one of the hottest in Galaxy
  2nd December 2009: Jodrell astronomers have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy hidden at the heart of the Bug Nebula - with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees it is 35 times hotter than the Sun.
• First fringes with ALMA
  19th November 2009: A team of astronomers and engineers have successfully combined signals from the first two telescopes of the Atacama Large Millimetre Array in the Andes mountains of Chile.
• Ticking stellar timebomb
  17th November 2009: Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have identified a prime candidate for the long-sought progenitor of exploding stars known as Type Ia supernovae.
• Moonwatching in Manchester
  29th October 2009: Astronomers from Jodrell Bank headed out onto the streets of Manchester this week to show passers-by close-up views of the Moon and the planet Jupiter. The event was part of International Year of Astronomy's Moonwatch.
• ESA's 'time machine' takes first glimpse into the past
  17 September 2009: Planck, ESA's mission to study the early Universe, has successfully completed its initial test survey of the sky. This has confirmed that both the sophisticated cooling system and the scientific instruments, some of which Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics played a key role in building, are working well.
• Apollo 11 Astronaut Pays Tribute to Jodrell Bank
  19 July 2009: One of the first men to walk on the Moon paid tribute to Jodrell Bank astronomers today (Sunday 19 July 2009), at a special Moonbounce event at the Observatory to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings.
• Jodrell Astrophysicist receives award for testing Einstein
  16th July 2009: Michael Kramer, Director of MPIfR in Bonn and Professor of Astrophysics at Jodrell Bank, has this week received the prestigious Marcel Grossman Award for his work using pulsars to test Einstein's theory of gravity.
• Recording of Russia's lunar gatecrash attempt released
  3rd July 2009: Dramatic and previously unheard recordings of the moment Russians tried to gatecrash the American's Moon landing in 1969 have today been released by The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
• Lovell helps scientists solve gamma-ray mystery
  2nd July 2009: Many of the fastest-spinning pulsars have been detected in gamma-rays for the first time by the Fermi satellite. These detections were made possible by observations using the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank.
• The Lovell Telescope: One of Britain's Greatest Machines
  5th June 2009: In a new series for the National Geographic Channel, Chris Barrie visits Jodrell Bank to celebrate the Lovell Telescope as one of Britain's Greatest Machines.
• Jodrell Bank stars in European space mission (12 May 2009)
  Cutting-edge engineering by staff at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics will play a crucial role in the Planck spacecraft, a European space mission - due to blast off on Thursday 14 May - to study the fading glow of the Big Bang.
• UK 'superscope' gets first signals from space (20 April 2009)
  e-MERLIN, a super-powerful new radio telescope network - which will allow astronomers to carry out three years worth of observations in a single day - has received its first signals from space at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory.
• Statement on the Cancellation of the CLOVER Project (6 April 2009)
  The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) recently announced that it is cancelling CLOVER, a microwave background polarisation experiment.
• Heavyweight galaxies puzzle astronomers (2 April 2009)
  Astronomers have discovered large galaxies some two thirds of the way back in time to the big bang. This surprising find casts doubt on theories of how the biggest galaxies form.
• Jodrell Bank to help star gazers travel 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' (2 April 2009)
  Scientists at Jodrell Bank are to be at the heart of a global astronomy marathon. 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' is a 24-hour live video web-cast that will enable star-gazers to see what is happening at observatories around the world.
• 10 Million Euro Boost for Radio Astronomy in Europe (26 March 2009)
  Scientists from Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics and their partners are to benefit from a Euro 10million grant, designed to support radio astronomy across Europe.
• Astronomers find dust around a primitive star (15 January 2009)
  Astronomers have observed dust forming around a dying star in a nearby galaxy, giving them a glimpse into the early universe and enlivening a debate about the origins of all cosmic dust.
• Telescope the size of the Earth (12 January 2009)
  Seventeen radio telescopes around the world join forces to carry out a unique 33-hour real-time observation to celebrate the launch of the International Year of Astronomy.