No, this is not a stage of a summer music festival, is not a space ship and is not an attraction in an amusement park. This structure is the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, in the north-west of England. The observatory is a UNESCO WHS since 2019.
The card was sent by Stella.
Located in a rural area of northwest England, free from radio interference, Jodrell Bank is one of the world's leading radio astronomy observatories. At the beginning of its use, in 1945, the property housed research on cosmic rays detected by radar echoes. This observatory, which is still in operation, includes several radio telescopes and working buildings, including engineering sheds and the Control Building. Jodrell Bank has had substantial scientific impact in fields such as the study of meteors and the moon, the discovery of quasars, quantum optics, and the tracking of spacecraft. This exceptional technological ensemble illustrates the transition from traditional optical astronomy to radio astronomy (1940s to 1960s), which led to radical changes in the understanding of the universe. - in: https://whc.unesco.org
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The Lovell telescope, with its 76 metre diameter reflecting surface, has stood over the Cheshire plain since construction was completed in 1957.
Since then, the telescope has been upgraded several times and it remains one of the biggest and most powerful radio telescopes in the world, spending most of its time investigating cosmic phenomena which were undreamed of when it was conceived.
It was given a Heritage Grade I listing in 1988. - in: https://www.jodrellbank.net
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