15: Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

"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 


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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