Many of the World's Great Radio Observatories have their own websites.
Click on their pictures to go to the observatories' home pages.
Joderell Bank near Manchester.
Together with other radio telescopes in the UK it forms a part of the
Multi-Element
Radio Linked
Interferometer Network
- MERLIN which, with a baseline of up to 217km, can achieve a resolution
greater than that of the Hubble Space Telescope!
Arecibo in Puerto Rico - the largest dish on the planet and a movie star from Contact and a James Bond film.
The VLA (Very Large Array) in New Mexico USA and another movie star - Contact and 2010
The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales. Another movie star; its role as an Apollo 11 receiving station was shown in The Dish,
The James Clerk Maxwell on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Operated by the UK, Canada and the Netherlands, at 15m it is the largest telescope in the world dedicated to sub-millimetre wavelengths.