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An artist’s impression of the Double Pulsar system in which the two pulsars orbit each other every 2.5 hours and send out high-energy beams that sweep across the sky. Image credit: John Rowe Animations/CSIRO

December 13, 2021

We counted 20 billion ticks of an extreme galactic clock to give Einstein’s theory of gravity its toughest test yet

Adam Deller, Swinburne University of Technology and Richard Manchester, CSIRO

Astronomers watched a pair of pulsars for 16 years to test the theory of general relativity, which has stood unchallenged for over a century.

CSIRO Parkes radio telescope has discovered around half of all known pulsars. Wayne England

November 27, 2017

Fifty years ago Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars and changed our view of the universe

George Hobbs, CSIRO; Richard Manchester, CSIRO, and Simon Johnston, CSIRO

In mid 1967, PhD student Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge University was helping to build a telescope. She went on to discover a little bit of “scruff” - the first evidence of a pulsar.

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