World-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drain
The Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAView image in fullscreenThe Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise. Peering at the signals from his army surplus radar, he made an unexpected discovery: radio reflections from the ionised trails of shooting stars.The work marked the birth of radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank.
- ▪The Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise.
- ▪Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAView image in fullscreenThe Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise.
- ▪Peering at the signals from his army surplus radar, he made an unexpected discovery: radio reflections from the ionised trails of shooting stars.The work marked the birth of radio astronomy at Jodrell Bank.
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The Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAView image in fullscreenThe Lovell telescope at the Jodrell Bank observatory in Cheshire at sunrise. Photograph: Peter Byrne/PAAstronomyAnalysisWorld-class Jodrell Bank is under threat and UK risks a physics brain drainIan Sample Science editorFunding crisis could lead to an exodus that would be a blow for British science and national growthTue 28 Jul 2026 01.00 EDTShareOn a chilly day in December 1945, Bernard Lovell, a physicist at the University of Manchester, struck out for the Cheshire countryside to study cosmic rays, the streams of high-energy particles that crisscross the universe.
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