In 1967, a Cambridge student spotted a ‘scruffy’ printout blip that revealed the universe’s mysterious ticking stars
From “Scruffy” Signals to Cosmic GPS: The Future of Pulsar Astronomy In 1967, a graduate student named Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a tiny, rhythmic anomaly on a strip of chart paper. What she initially dismissed as “scruff” turned out to be the first evidence of pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that act as the universe’s most … Read more