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The printout where Bell and Hewish noticed the regular signal associated with the pulsar.It is a green-yellow graph paper with a staticky red line showing occasional spikes. There are hand annotations labeling the spikes and recording the time and date of each one.

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  1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:15:22 UTC Robert McNees Robert McNees

    Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.

    She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star.

    #astronomy #pulsars #neutronstars #JocelynBellBurnell

    In conversation Monday, 28-Nov-2022 15:15:22 UTC from mastodon.social permalink
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