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The Woman Behind A Mystery That Changed Astronomy

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Detecting Radio Waves in the Daytime

Jocelyn is a graduate student in radio astronomy at Cambridge University. She helps build the telescope that she used to detect the first pulsar. At the time, astronomers had only ever detected about 20 of these elusive quasars. Jocelyn: "It's real work to be done"

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