Telescope’s star role at rock festival
BRITAIN’S largest radio telescope is acting as a film screen for a spectacular show of space pictures at a rock festival this weekend.
Sky’s Eye View beams images from Nasa’s James Webb telescope and other sources on to the 249ft Lovell Telescope dish at Jodrell Bank, venue for the three-day Bluedot Festival, headlined tonight by Björk.
Professor Teresa Anderson said: “We’ll project some of the latest data from the Sun and beautiful images of the Moon.”
She and her husband, physicist Prof Tim O’Brien from the University of Manchester, have created a soundtrack including a “sonification” of the telescope’s Milky Way scans.
“You hear the sounds of individual spiral arms rise and fall,” says Prof O’Brien.