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Pulsars
Quite simply, pulsars are rotating neutron stars. This rotation is what makes them pulse. Pulsars were first discovered in July 1967 by graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her professor Antony Hewish. The following year both Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini separately suggested that these pulsars (PULsating stARS) were actually rotating neutron stars.
Quite simply, pulsars are rotating neutron stars. This rotation is what makes them pulse. Pulsars were first discovered in July 1967 by graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her professor Antony Hewish. The following year both Thomas Gold and Franco Pacini separately suggested that these pulsars (PULsating stARS) were actually rotating neutron stars.