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Citizen scientists discover rotating pulsar - with Einstein@Home, so can you

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 12, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 23:00
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Idle computers are the astronomers' playground: Three citizen scientists--an American couple and a German--have discovered a new radio pulsar hidden in data gathered by the Arecibo Observatory. This is the first deep-space discovery by Einstein@Home, which uses donated time from the home and office computers of 250,000 volunteers from 192 different countries. 

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