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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

2 August 2017

Fifty years ago, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered a mysterious, pulsing radio signal – and the downsides of being a young woman in science
First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

First exomoon might have been spotted 4000 light years away

27 July 2017

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon around a distant planet, and have asked to use Hubble to confirm whether the tantalising hints are a real discovery

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