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Author: Common crawl
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German[de]
Aufgrund der enormen Regelmäßigkeit der abgestrahlten Wellen vermuteten Jocelyn Bell , die Entdeckerin des ersten Pulsars, und ihr Doktorvater Dr. Antony Hewish zunächst, dass es sich bei der Signalquelle eventuell um intelligente Lebewesen handeln könne.
English[en]
Initially baffled as to the unnaturally regular nature of its emissions, the pair dubbed their discovery LGM-1, for " little green men "; their pulsar was later dubbed CP 1919 , and is now known by a number of designators including PSR 1919+21. Astrophysicist Peter A. Sturrock writes that "when the first regular radio signals from pulsars were discovered, the Cambridge scientists seriously considered that they might have come from an extraterrestrial civilization.