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Audio Video Interleaved Video  |  1998-10-23  |  4.0 MB  |  150x150  |  10fps  |  1 minute, 20 seconds
Transcription: Zdenik Mihailacik The Story of Pulsars Our story begins in the autumn of 1967. At Cambridge in England, a special low-frequency radio telescope had been built giving high resolution. It was designed to study the fluctuating signals from distant radio sources, thereby providing useful information about the environment through which these signals had to pass on their way to the Earth. The originator of the project was Anthony Hewish. His team of co-workers included a graduate student, Jocelyn Bell, who had not long qualified from university. Jocelyn Bell was the junior member of the team and was ...