Jodrell Bank, the internationally renowned astrophysics centre, said it was "keen to support the initiative".
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Three years ago a team at Jodrell Bank found a double pulsar, a milestone in astronomy.
Tim O'Brien, associate director of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, suggests this would have looked striking.
Dr O'Brien has collected his favourite space sounds in the Jodrell Bank podcast, known as the Jodcast.
Sir Bernard was also an accomplished musician, a keen cricketer and an internationally-renowned arboriculturalist who created an arboretum at Jodrell Bank.
Conceived in the 1940s, and co-designed by engineer Sir Charles Husband, the main telescope at Jodrell Bank was completed in 1957.
Astronomers are increasingly listening into stars and other space sounds, according to Dr Tim O'Brien, of Manchester University's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics.
Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain will present their Stargazing Live series live from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire from 8-10 January on BBC Two.
Jodrell Bank, which remains part of Manchester University, spends much of its time looking for quasars and pulsars, large stars that have collapsed in on themselves and become hugely dense rotating neutron stars.
Among those ideas, as I described on this post a while back, was getting real world objects, from the Jodrell Bank telescope, to the Isle of Wight ferry, to Tower Bridge, to tweet.
On top of his most conspicuous achievements, Sir Lovell played an important role in developing airborne radar during World War II and was lauded for having scientific curiosity long after he hung up his Jodrell director's hat in 1980.
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While he wasn't the first to leap into the field, he established the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory to study cosmic rays in 1945 and organized the construction of what would ultimately be called the Lovell Telescope -- a radio telescope so large and useful that it's still the third-largest steerable example in the world, 55 years after it was first put into action.
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