Tick, tick, tick pulsating star, how we wonder what you are - Livestream

In this talk I will describe how pulsars (pulsating radio sources) were accidentally discovered during a research project to find quasars.

Prof. Bell Burnell was responsible for the discovery of pulsars while a radio astronomy graduate student in Cambridge and has subsequently worked in gamma ray, X-ray, infrared and millimeter wavelength astronomy. Her discovery of pulsars would eventually earn the Nobel Prize in 1974; however, she was not one of the prize's recipients.

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