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The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher

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Ha ha

Technically they discovered a "pulsating radio star", which they contracted to "pulsar". That they are due to a type of neutron star is speculative, and frankly, laughable, all the laboratory evidence suggests that more than 100 or so neutrons is unstable ("Island of stability").

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