* Astronomy

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 Manchesters Jodrell Bank Observatory
Engineers and astronomers at the Cheshire site have seen first light with e-MERLIN, successfully processing signals from two of the telescopes in the seven-telescope network.
e-MERLIN is designed to make detailed radio images of stars and galaxies using seven telescopes spread up to 217 km apart across the UK.

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Radio telescopes around the world will join forces this week to carry out a unique observation of three quasars, distant galaxies powered by super-massive black holes at their cores. The nearly continuous 33-hour observation will be conducted on Jan 15-16 as part of a demonstration at the opening event for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA 2009) in Paris.
17 telescopes in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America, including several operated from the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory, will take part in the mammoth project.

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The creator of the giant space telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK has disclosed after 50 years that the telescope was secretly modified to track incoming Soviet nuclear missiles during the Cold War.
According to a report in Telegraph, the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank was set up to provide a four-minute warning of missile attacks during the Cold War, its creator, Sir Bernard Lovell, has disclosed.

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Jodrell funding - epetition response

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