3 Telescopes (IMAGE)

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

3 Telescopes

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The three radio telescopes that were used to to discover, to confirm or investigate the 24 pulsars: The Parkes radio telescope of the Australian research organization CSIRO (above), the Lovell telescope at the English Jodrell Bank Observatory (bottom left) and the 100-m radio telescope in Effelsberg, part of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy.

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CSIRO/Jodrell Bank/Anthony Holloway/MPIfR/Norbert Tacken

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