The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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In this video, a nuclear engineer reacts to the Kurzgesagt video "Astronomy is in Crisis and It's Exciting," providing insight into the challenges faced by the field of astronomy. The video discusses ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report that a powerful gamma-ray burst detected in March may have been ...

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From the moment she looked through a telescope, Marissa Norlund knew she was an observational astronomer.

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