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Jodrell Bank Observatory

Jodrell Bank Observatory

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Nov 6, 2026

speaker_1NARRATOR
4:14
When we look at the stated science goals of these projects, consistent themes emerge.
speaker_1NARRATOR
4:19
For example, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory at Jodrell Bank in the UK is a massive radio array that will define the field of radio astronomy for the foreseeable future.
speaker_1NARRATOR
4:30
Its website contains a list of science goals.
speaker_1NARRATOR
4:33
On that list, the early universe, gravitational waves, dark energy, and cosmology are all listed before stars, the interstellar medium, and the origins of life.
Harini BhatHOST
20:17
independently confirmed disturbed soil at the Apollo 15 site.
Harini BhatHOST
20:21
And the missions were tracked in real time by independent observers, including the Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope in England, which followed Eagle all the way down to the surface.
Harini BhatHOST
20:32
Okay, so what about the famous gotchas? Let's speedrun them because each one has a real answer.
Harini BhatHOST
20:38
The flag waving with no air, it's not waving.
Jane GreavesGUEST
25:10
LAUGHTER But what I've been mostly doing lately is looking at where planets come from.
Jane GreavesGUEST
25:16
And so it's been really exciting to actually use the telescope at Jodrell Bank, the E Merlin network in the UK.
Jane GreavesGUEST
25:22
And we're looking at particles orbiting young stars, which emit radio waves.
Jane GreavesGUEST
25:28
And we're looking to see what that tells us about essentially how you bang the rocks together to make planets.

36 MINS LATER

Rashi SrivastavaHOST
61:53
Now, Jotcast is turning 20.
Rashi SrivastavaHOST
61:55
Yes, 20 years of astronomy later, we are still going on.
Rashi SrivastavaHOST
61:59
We are celebrating our 20th anniversary at the Jodrell Bank this month.
Rashi SrivastavaHOST
62:03
For tickets and more details, check out the Jodrell Bank website and keep an eye on our social media accounts at the rate official Jotcast.
Geoff OwenGUEST
53:55
Simon Mayo, I think, was involved in it as well.
Geoff OwenGUEST
53:58
And it was all about listening to messages coming in from Jodrell Bank.
Colin Jackson-BrownHOST
54:02
Right.
Geoff OwenGUEST
54:04
Yeah, and for the first sort of 15, 20 minutes, it's treated as a BBC Radio 1 news broadcast.
Scott ManleyHOST
25:37
In the UK, on the other hand, they're wanting to save money.
Scott ManleyHOST
25:42
And they're going to shut down Jodrell Bank.
Scott ManleyHOST
25:44
Jodrell Bank was founded in 1945.
Scott ManleyHOST
25:48
It was the world's largest radio telescope for a long time.
Scott ManleyHOST
25:52
But now they're shutting down the funding.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:40
But the report from Moscow gives little more information.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:43
The announcement from Moscow confirms an earlier report from Jodrell Bank in England that Luna 12 went into orbit shortly before 9 o'clock this morning.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:51
It adds that signals from the satellite are being processed.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
22:56
The moon today, but there is still no word from official quarters on the exact nature of its mission.
Briony WilsonGUEST
5:31
If you're here for a little while, there's real bucket list items that I would recommend doing.
Briony WilsonGUEST
5:35
Visit Jodrell Bank.
Briony WilsonGUEST
5:37
It's a UNESCO World Heritage site that many don't know about it.
Briony WilsonGUEST
5:40
It's a working observatory with the Lovell Telescope.
Ken HudnallHOST
26:15
The Wurzburg array was supplemented by various radio and television antennas, which allowed the base to monitor transmissions from Earth.
Ken HudnallHOST
26:24
Ongoing radio traffic from the Wahalla base was first detected by Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory in the early 1949.
Ken HudnallHOST
26:35
First radio intercepts were handed off to the Government Code and Cipher School at RAF Eastcote in West London, which found they were internal base communications were not its first suspected messages to surviving Nazis located on the earth.
Ken HudnallHOST
26:50
The watching brief passed to a joint project run by GCHQ from its Cheltenham headquarters, which assisted with assistance from MI5 and the Ministry of Defense.
Jeff KayeHOST
57:16
A report from Grand Island says that the National Guard regular army u.s air force police and sheriff's deputies numbering in the vicinity of about a thousand men have almost been totally destroyed by a single fighting machine from what is believed to be a planet mars there are approximately 20 survivors 20 the rest remain trampled by this huge metal feet of this martian fighting machine or cindered by the heat ray and at last report we understand that the charred body of jim fagan has also was discovered on the island.
Jeff KayeHOST
57:46
Another report in that further explosions are now being witnessed by the Jodrell Bank Observatory in England on the planet Mars.
Jeff KayeHOST
57:54
We understand that Jamestown, Lewiston, Lockport, all of the towns surrounding the Niagara County area in Erie County around Grand Island are all being evacuated at this moment.
Jeff KayeHOST
58:05
We've lost communications with Don.
HarryUNKNOWN
36:48
The eye paper.
HarryUNKNOWN
36:49
We're going to try and save Jodrell Bank.
BeauHOST
36:53
I'm not being sarcastic.
BeauHOST
36:54
Sometimes I say stuff and it sounds sarcastic.
BeauHOST
36:56
I'm not being sarcastic in this instance.
BeauHOST
36:58
We're trying to save Jodrell Bank, the great telescope in Britain, which the government have pooled any funding for.
BeauHOST
37:04
And Brian Cox, Brian Cox, is going to get involved.
BeauHOST
37:08
Leading scientists, including Brian Cox, hope star power, their celebrity power, can convince PM to save observatory Jodrell Bank.

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