in diameter;it is now the third-largest, after the US Green Bank telescope, and German Effelsberg telescope. Originally known as the "250 ft telescope" or the Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, it became the Mark I telescope from 1960 as future telescopes (the Mark II, III, and IV) began design. It was renamed the Lovell Telescope in 1987 after Sir Bernard Lovell, and became a Grade I listed building in 1988. The telescope forms part of the MERLIN and European VLBI Network arrays of radio telescopes. - Source: Wikipedia
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