Jocelyn Bell Burnell made a discovery that revolutionized the field of astronomy. She detected the radio signals emitted by certain dying stars called pulsars. This encore episode: Jocelyn's story.

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Scientists had theorized that they existed, but it was astronomer Jocelyn Bell who first observed and analyzed one in 1967 while using a vast radio telescope in Cambridge, England to study quasars.

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn Bell. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Susan Jocelyn Bell took an examination at age 11 as part of Britain's stringent requirements for pursuing higher ...

An Post released two limited edition postage stamps honouring the work on Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Prof Aoife McLysaght.

I'm Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell. I'm an astrophysicist and I discovered radio pulsars. I now work in Oxford University, and the objects you've been looking at are part of a research experiment.