THIRD TELESCOPE FOR “RADIO STAR” SEARCH.—Lord Bowden, Minister of State for Science (left), and Professor Martin Ryle, professor of radio astronomy at Cambridge University, standing in front of the 100ft aerial of the third radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Laboratory at Cambridge. The telescope is an important step forward in the study of quasars, the mysterious “radio stars” of remote space. The telescope includes three huge 100ft by 60ft bowl aerials, which feed information to a nerve centre. This third telescope, built with the aid of a £570,000 grant from the Science Research Council, completes construction of the observatory, which began in 1962.

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30803, 15 July 1965, Page 3

THIRD TELESCOPE FOR “RADIO STAR” SEARCH.—Lord Bowden, Minister of State for Science (left), and Professor Martin Ryle, professor of radio astronomy at Cambridge University, standing in front of the 100ft aerial of the third radio telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Laboratory at Cambridge. The telescope is an important step forward in the study of quasars, the mysterious “radio stars” of remote space. The telescope includes three huge 100ft by 60ft bowl aerials, which feed information to a nerve centre. This third telescope, built with the aid of a £570,000 grant from the Science Research Council, completes construction of the observatory, which began in 1962.