15: Neutron Stars - with Jocelyn Bell Burnell

The Supermassive Podcast - A podcast by The Royal Astronomical Society

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"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 Don't forget to send your questions or space book club recommendations to [email protected] or tweet @RoyalAstroSoc using #RASSupermassive. The Supermassive Podcast is a Boffin Media Production by Izzie Clarke and Richard Hollingham.