Pulsars
The discovery of pulsars in 1967 was a complete surprise. Antony Hewish and his student Jocelyn Bell (later Bell Burnell) were operating a large radio antenna in Cambridge, England, when they ...
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The Discovery of Pulsars
Overview
The discovery of pulsars in 1967 can be said to have been almost accidental. Pulsars were discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1934-), then a graduate student at the U...
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Binary Pulsar
A binary pulsar, a rotating neutron star that generates regular pulses of radiation, exists in a binary system in which the pulsar has a companion stellar object (e.g., another neutron s...
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Pulsars
The discovery of pulsars, along with that of quasars and the cosmic microwave background, ranks among some of the most important discoveries in astronomy in the latter half of the twentieth ce...
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Pulsar
Pulsars are astronomical objects which appear to emit short and regular bursts of radio waves. In 1967, graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell was conducting a study designed to detect quasars u...
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Pulsars
The Discovery of Pulsars
Binary Pulsar
Pulsar