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Article: Church joins star band with pulsar find.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1998
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A scientist at Birmingham University has joined an elite band of astronomers after making an extraordinary discovery completely by accident.
Dr Michael Church has become one of only a handful of scientists to find an uncharted X-ray pulsar up to 30,000 light years away.
But it could be more than a year before he sees the star again because it can only be viewed with the help of three specialist satellites across the globe - at locations in Japan, Holland or America.
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