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  1. Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 01:48:48 UTC Corey S Powell Corey S Powell

    55 years ago #today Jocelyn Bell discovered the first known pulsar -- a star the size of a city, spinning once a second, whipping up intense radio signals that sounded like the beep-beep-beep of an alien signal.

    In her own words: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars #astronomy #discovery

    In conversation Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 01:48:48 UTC from mastodon.social permalink

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      "On 28 November 1967, it came again, a string of pulses.” This was not the work of Little Green Men. Jocelyn Bell had discovered pulsars.

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