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Jodrell Bank
Site in Cheshire, England, of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories of the University of Manchester. Its largest instrument is the 76-m/250-ft radio dish (the Lovell Telescope), completed in 1957, modified in 1970, and upgraded in 2001 and 2002, given a new surface and drive system. A 38 × 25-m/125 × 82-ft elliptical radio dish was introduced in 1964, capable of working at shorter wavelengths.
These radio telescopes are used in conjunction with five smaller dishes up to 230 km/143 mi apart in an array called MERLIN (multi-element radio-linked interferometer network) to produce detailed maps of radio sources.
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