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Tia Ghose

Science history: Astronomy graduate student Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers a signal of 'little green men,' but her adviser gets the Nobel Prize — Nov. 28, 1967

Artist's concept of a spinning pulsar and its lighthouse-like beams of radiation. .
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Milestone: Radio pulsars discovered

Date: Nov. 28, 1967

Where: University of Cambridge, U.K.

Who: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

An astronomy graduate student in England was scouring more than 100 pages of data per day from a radio telescope when she noticed a strange, repeating signal that she dubbed "LGM" — short for "little green men."

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