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Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers pulsars
As a student at Cambridge, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars using a radio telescope. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars whose regularly occurring energy pulses are detected by astronomers on the Earth.
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