It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.
It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.
For #Fensterfreitag, I wanted to share this painting, View of Dresden through an Open Window, by Karl Gottfried Traugott Faber (1786-1863). I like the soft colours in the sky; it gives the impression of an early morning and the start of a beautiful day.
A gnarled visage forms in the ancient bark, its features shaped by the twisted grain—pareidolia, the mind’s tendency to find patterns in random things
Monsieur Léo
Nikon F4 / Nikkor AF-D 85mm f1,8 / Kodak Portra 160
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