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World Service,15 Jul 1999,4 mins

Discovering New Stars

My Century

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The British astronomer Jocelyn Bell-Burnell describes her part in the accidental discovery of a new kind of star called a 'pulsar' when she was a graduate student in the 1970s. She is currently a physicist at the Open University.

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