Tick, tick, tick. Forty years on from the first observations of pulsating neutron stars we talk to the discoverer of pulsars, Jocelyn Bell-Burnell. She tells us about her PhD and how an "annoying bit of scruff" turned into a fascinating area of research. We also hear about the Jodrell Bank First Move Literary Festival happening in June. As always, we have the latest news with Megan and Ian tells us what we can see in the night sky from the northern hemisphere.
Show Links
- First Move Literary Festival 15-17 June
- Other events at the Jodrell Bank Visitor Centre
- Fly your poem to the Moon: poetry competition run by The Times
The news - June 2007
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- Chandra press release about the brightest supernova ever seen - SN2006gy
- Mercury's Core Molten, Radar Study Shows
Interview with Prof Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
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- University Cambridge website about the original discovery in 1967
- An Introduction to Pulsars from the Australia Telescope National Facility
- Imagine the Universe: What is a pulsar?
- The sounds of pulsars
- MP3: Interview with Michael Kramer about the double pulsar (January 2006).
The night sky for June 2007
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for June 2007
- Observing Brocchi's Cluster
Show Credits
| News: | Megan Argo |
| Notícias em Português - Junho 2007: | Valerio Ribeiro |
| Nouvelles en Français - Juin 2007: | Neil Vaytet |
| News in Chinese: | Dandan Xu |
| اخبار به فارسى: | Mina Panahi |
| Interview: | Nick and Stuart talked to Dr Jocelyn Bell-Burnell |
| Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
| Presenters: | David Ault, Stuart Lowe and Nick Rattenbury |
| Editors: | Stuart Lowe |
| Cover Art: | The first pulsar telescope at Cambridge CREDIT: radio.astro.gla.ac.uk/stellarlect/index.html |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
| Additional Language Support: | Mohammad Ebadinejad |
| Intro/Outro script: | David Ault |
| Intro/Outro voices: | Alicia Laine Matheson as Mrs Robinson and Tom Backus as Benjamin (www.pendantaudio.com/) |
| Cover art: | The first pulsar telescope at Cambridge Credit: Carrol & Ostlie |
Notícias em Português - Junho 2007 [Duration 07:19]:
Nouvelles en Français - Juin 2007 [Duration 05:59]:
The News in Chinese - June 2007 [Duration 06:01]:
اخبار به فارسى [Duration 05:19]: