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  • What is a neutron star? End-shutdown

    What is a neutron star?

End-shutdown

    EITHERn August 6, 1967, Jocelyn Bell was looking at scribbles drawn in red pen on moving scrolls of graph paper: data from a radio telescope she was using for her Ph.D. research on distant galaxies. She noticed a strange looking doodle. It was “a bit scruffy,” she tells me from her office at Oxford University, […]