Multiple Choice
The great breakthrough in understanding the nature of pulsars was
A) the discovery of a pulsar in the middle of the Crab Nebula.
B) the realization that pulsars were found only in the galactic plane.
C) the connection between pulsars and variable stars.
D) the discovery that all pulsars have periods that are multiples of a universal pulsar period.
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