In 1967, graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell rechecked radio telescope recordings and noticed a bizarre, perfectly repeating pulse that returned every 1.3 seconds. Teammates initially brushed it off as “scruff,” but its consistency didn’t match anything known. The signal became the first evidence of neutron stars, unveiling pulsars and rewriting astronomy’s map of the sky.
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