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World Service,1 min

We called this signal 'Little Green Men'

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell talks about the amazing discovery she made as a student. Pulsars are one of the strangest things in the universe - tiny spinning stars which are so dense that a piece the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as the whole of humanity.

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