The woman who discovered a new type of star ✨ - BBC World Service #shorts (opens in new tab)

In the 1960s, PhD student Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a strange blip buried in miles of radio telescope data\. Click here to subscribe to our channel 👉🏽 She didn't know what it was - possibly a signal - from a completely new type of object in space\. When she told her supervisor, Antony Hewish, he was dismissive\. But over time, Jocelyn and her team worked out that the “blip” was the first ever pulsar - a rapidly rotating star detectable from Earth as pulsing radio waves\. These objects had...