Hewish used what kind of telescope to discover pulsars?
Optical
Interferometer
Radio
Infrared
Answer
Using a radio telescope, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, a graduate student under Antony Hewish's supervision, detected the very first rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar in 1967. These compact stars emit beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles, which can be detected on Earth as a series of regular pulses as the star rotates.
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Hewish was a member and fellow of what institute of Physics?
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