Pulsars

1967 · Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Year: 1967

Description

A signal repeating every 1.337 seconds, so regular it was labelled LGM-1 for 'little green men'. It was a neutron star, spinning — an object predicted in 1934 and never expected to be seen.

Discoverer

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Referenced by

researcher

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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