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Birth of a pulsar; retinal scanning; the International Liquid Mirror Telescope.
1989 [NASA]
“Researchers have been watching the neutron star left by supernova 1987a evolve into its young pulsar state. Richard Muller, an astrophysicist at the University of California Berkeley, told Optics News that, since no one has ever witnessed the birth of a pulsar before, ‘we didn’t know what to expect, but we can’t help being astounded.”
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