pulsars
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Wins Multi-Million Breakthrough Prize For Discovering Pulsars
Accomplished astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell has won a $US3 million ($4.1 million) Special Breakthrough Prize for her discovery of pulsars 50 years ago and continued leadership in science.
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Scientists Observe ‘Black Widow’ Pulsar In Mind-Boggling Resolution
Thanks to a quirk of astrophysics, astronomers were able to observe features just tens of kilometers apart near a spinning neutron star located 6,500 light-years away from Earth. This is like using a telescope in your backyard to see DNA strands on the moon.
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Why We Should Look For Alien Megastructures Around Pulsars
Some day in the far future, it’s possible our descendants will kick it up a notch and wrap the entire Sun in a massive solar-collecting shell known as a Dyson Sphere. It’s also possible that some advanced alien civilisations have already gone this route, which is why some SETI folks are on the lookout for…