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Josephine Bell, an astronomer, has discovered a new star called a pulsar.

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Josephine Bell, an astronomer, has discovered a new type of pulsar

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Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on July 15, 1943, Susan Josephine Bell is the oldest of four children in the family. Her father was an architect and worked at the Alma Observatory in Northern Ireland for some time, giving her the opportunity to visit the observatory and ask many questions.

After completing early school education in Northern Ireland in 1956, she was sent to Mount School, a Quaker Girls Boarding School in Yorkshire, England.

In 1961, she wrote to Bernard Lovell, a British astronomer at the Radio Observatory in Cheldonbank, Cheshire, England, seeking his advice on how to become a radio astronomer. Bernard suggested that she study physics or electronics.

He received a degree in physics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1965. She then transferred to Cambridge University for a PhD. She and a group of five others began to make radio telescopes for quasar observations, which took two years to complete.

The radio telescope has been in use since July 1967.

An unidentified celestial body was recorded on November 28, and the celestial signal disappeared for several weeks before returning.

In January 1968, the group published a research paper claiming to have discovered pulsars.

In 1969, he became a researcher at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, dedicated to research in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. Changed his family name to Bell Bernell after marriage. In 1974, he moved to the Murad Space Science Laboratory and devoted himself to research in the field of X-ray astronomy using the British satellites.

In 1982, he became a senior research fellow at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. She observes galaxies with the Exosat satellite and manages the James Clark Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.

In 1989 he was awarded the Herschel Prize of the British Astronomical Society for his discovery of pulsars.

He resigned from the Royal Observatory in 1991 and became a professor of physics at the Milton Keynes Open University in the United Kingdom.