Pulsar
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A pulsar is a highly magnetized rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles. This radiation can be observed only when a beam of emission is pointing t
PSR B1509−58 – X-rays from Chandra are gold; infrared from WISE in red, green and blue/max.
Chart on which Jocelyn Bell first recognised evidence of a pulsar, exhibited at Cambridge University Library
Composite optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar
The Vela Pulsar and its surrounding pulsar wind nebula
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish physicist who, while conducting research for her doctorate in 1967, discovered the pulsar. This discovery was recognized by the Nobel Prize in Physi
Pulsar
…detected that, at that time, exceeded the accuracy of atomic clocks in keeping time. Signals from the first discovered pulsar were initially observed by Jocelyn Bell while analyzing data recorded on August 6, 1967, from a newly commissioned radio telescope that she helped build. Initially dismissed as radio interference…
Bell Burnell in 2009
Jocelyn Bell, June 1967