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The University of Cambridge's radio astronomy field station near Cambridge, England, whose One-Mile and later arrays developed under Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish pioneered the aperture-synthesis imaging technique that underlies most modern radio telescopes. Antony Hewish and his student Jocelyn Bell Burnell used its instruments there to discover the first pulsar in 1967.

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