Science and Technology Facilities Council

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves. Prior to LIGO, all data about the universe has come in the form of light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation, from limited direct exploration on relatively nearby Solar System objects such as the Moon, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and their moons, asteroids etc, and from high energy cosmic particles. Initially, two large observatories were built in the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laser interferometr

astronomical telescope at Paranal Observatory

telescope in La Palma, Spain

Particle accelerator

GEO600 is a gravitational wave detector located near Sarstedt, a town to the south of Hanover, Germany. It is designed and operated by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Leibniz Universität Hannover, along with University of Glasgow, University of Birmingham and Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, and is funded by the Max Planck Society and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

infrared reflecting telescope in Hawaii

British scientific research laboratory

The Multi-Element Radio Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN) is an interferometer array of radio telescopes spread across England. The array is run from Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire by the University of Manchester on behalf of UK Research and Innovation.

radio telescope in the Canary Islands

telescope in Garafía, La Palma, the Canary Islands, Spain

beach in Carmarthenshire, Wales

facility for atmospheric and radio research

UK's national synchrotron science facility located in Oxfordshire

English physics research facility

British physicist

network of six solar helioseismology observatories