Episode 15
15: Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The Supermassive Podcast · Izzie Clarke
March 26, 202142m 25s
Show Notes
"I was tracking down every signal that it picked up, and there was one signal that I couldn't make sense of."
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gives Izzie and Dr Becky a neutron star 101 and tells them how she discovered pulsars in the 1960s. Plus, Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky.
Book Club Recommendations
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell gives Izzie and Dr Becky a neutron star 101 and tells them how she discovered pulsars in the 1960s. Plus, Dr Robert Massey takes on your questions and tells us what to look out for in the spring night sky.
Book Club Recommendations
- Forgotten Women: The Scientists - Zing Tsjeng
- Six Impossible Things - John Gribbin
- The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack
- Vera Rubin: A Life - Jacqueline and Simon Mitton
- Cosmos - Carl Sagan
- The Book Nobody Read - Owen Gingerich
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