While pursuing her PhD at Cambridge University, Jocelyn ... that when a massive star died, it would collapse into an incredibly dense, spinning body, a neutron star. Bell and Hewish's discovery ...

"I started by failing," quips Jocelyn ... stars. The media called these collapsed stars pulsars and jumped on the story. Soon after her discovery, Bell married and changed her name to Burnell.

Rob's guest this week is the astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Whilst still completing ... She discovered Pulsars, small stars near the end of their life-cycle which emit radio signals, pulses.