. On this day in 1967 – November 28th – at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge, England, the first pulsar was observed by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish.
A pulsar is a rapidly rotating neutron star, but at the time no one knew this. A neutron star was still a theoretical construct whose existence wasn't generally accepted by astronomers.
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