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Lord's Bridge
Lightning Field

Ami, still from Super 8 film, 2005
[Image | Tim O'Riley]

The Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO) is sited at Lord’s Bridge which takes its name from an old railway station located 5 miles west of Cambridge.

While some of the telescopes date back to the 1950s and 60s, the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager, or AMI, is the most recent addition to the MRAO's roster of instruments. Its small array consists of ten 3.7 metre parabolic antennae housed in an enclosure with banked, aluminium walls to protect them from interference. The AMI small array is used in conjunction with the AMI large array, an upgraded version of the Ryle telescope, originally built in 1971. Together these dishes detect radiation from the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) which they use as a back light to reveal distant clusters of galaxies - the largest structures in our universe.