MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) - A second eastern Kentucky high school student has made an astronomical discovery.
Jessica Pal, who is a sophomore at Rowan County High School, found a pulsar, which is a dense, rotating star. Her find last month comes about a year after another student at the same school also discovered a pulsar.
Pal and Hannah Mabry began looking for the heavenly objects when they took a space science class offered at Rowan County High School. Students in the class work with the Pulsar Search Collaborative, a project by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and West Virginia University.
Pal and her teacher took her data to the observatory, which confirmed that it was a newly discovered pulsar.
Pal told The Independent that she is now considering a career in astronomy.
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