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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

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

5 July 2017

The idea of finding planets beyond the solar system was considered borderline crazy just a few decades ago, until Didier Queloz ran headlong into the first one

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Finding the first pulsar set my world spinning

Premier exoplanet hunter on finding the first alien world

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