The Jodrell Bank radio telescope will link with six other radio telescopes around the UK to combine data in a project called e-MERLIN .

What questions will e-MERLIN try to answer?  Big questions!!!  such as

What is the universe made of and how does it evolve?

Are we alone in the universe?

How do galaxies, stars and planets form and evolve?

- read more here!

Action:

Find out how they work here  - and if you are really keen, you could try to build your own radio telescope using these instructions!

Lots of other activities with radio telescopes can be found here!