Tickets Alert: Public tours of UCL’s telescope observatory

One of the UK’s largest telescopes can be found, surprisingly, in North London, and there are now regular tours of the observatory. Operated by University College London (UCL), the observatory was founded in 1925 and is one of the best-equipped astronomical facilities for student training and research in the UK.
Despite its London location, they still manage to get serious science done through the background glare of the city lights — in 2014, a supernova in the galaxy M82 was discov