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Keep up to date with the latest news from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
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Astronomers link 64 telescopes to observe the structure of the Universe ahead of the SKAO launch
20 Jun 2022
An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral...
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Astronomers discover how galaxies form through mergers
15 Jun 2022
Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an ...
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First Light at Jodrell Bank wows first 1000 visitors
10 Jun 2022
Jodrell Bank’s newest attraction, the First Light Pavilion opened its doors to visitors for the first time last weekend, with over 1000 people ...
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Strange neutron star spinning every 76 seconds discovered in stellar graveyard
30 May 2022
An international team of scientists have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation ...
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UK to build software brain for giant radio telescope
12 Apr 2022
More than £15million has been awarded to UK institutions, including The University of Manchester, which are delivering the crucial software ...
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NASA’s Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the grave
1 Apr 2022
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a ...
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Opening date announced for new First Light Pavilion at Jodrell Bank
10 Mar 2022
The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank is set to open its highly-anticipated First Light Pavilion on 4 June 2022.
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The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed
10 Mar 2022
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail.
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Colossal black holes locked in cosmic dance at heart of galaxy
23 Feb 2022
Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date.
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Challenging Einstein’s greatest theory with extreme stars
13 Dec 2021
Researchers at The University of Manchester have helped conduct a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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Scientists take a significant step forward in detecting Nanohertz Gravitational-wave background
27 Oct 2021
An international research team has today published a detailed analysis of a candidate signal for the since-long sought gravitational wave background ...
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Astronomers solve 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding Chinese supernova of 1181AD
15 Sep 2021
A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has finally been solved, according to ...
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FSE duo among Future Leaders Fellowship recipients
9 Sep 2021
Drs Laura Wolz and Margherita Polacci will receive help to commercialise their innovations.
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Bluedot returns to Jodrell Bank with headliner Björk
1 Sep 2021
After a two year hiatus, the much-loved bluedot festival is set to return to Jodrell Bank on 21-24 July 2022 and the team have today announced an ...
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John Ponsonby
20 Jul 2021
It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of John Ponsonby.
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Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population
6 Jul 2021
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any ...
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Jodrell Bank hosts TV banquet special
14 May 2021
The culminating episode of The Great British Menu takes place at Jodrell Bank and is set to air on BBC Two at 8pm Friday 21st May.
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Radio astronomers discover 8 new millisecond pulsars
28 Apr 2021
Using the sensitivity of one of the SKA precursor telescopes, a group of radio astronomers explored the central regions of some globular clusters in ...
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Launch of Europe’s largest astronomy network
23 Mar 2021
Two astronomy networks are coming together to form Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy collaborative network: the ORP.
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True identity of mysterious gamma-ray source revealed
3 Feb 2021
An international research team including members from The University of Manchester has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a ...
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Could game theory help discover intelligent alien life?
28 Jan 2021
New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as ‘game theory’ in order to ...
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A 4G network on the Moon is bad news for radio astronomy
3 Nov 2020
If Jodrell Bank could pick up interference from a phone signal on Mars, how would it fare with an entire 4G network on the Moon?
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Mystery of unusual neutron star system revealed after 20 years, thanks to thousands of volunteers
22 Oct 2020
After more than two decades, an international research team has identified a galactic mystery source of gamma rays: a heavy neutron star with a very ...
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Hints of life on Venus
14 Sep 2020
An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – ...
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Manchester experts’ breakthrough helps narrow the search for intelligent life in the Milky Way
2 Sep 2020
An analytical breakthrough that could significantly improve our chances of finding extra-terrestrial life in our galaxy has been discovered by a team ...
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Earth’s nearest supergiant is cooling down at the end of its life
29 Jun 2020
In late 2019 the red supergiant closest to Earth, Betelgeuse, began to rapidly fade in brightness. Initially thought to be a sign that the star was ...
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