A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new pulsar, using data from the giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT). Shay Bloxton, 15, a participant in The Pulsar Search Collaboratory, an ITEST project in which students analyze data from the radio telescope, spotted evidence of the pulsar on October 15. Bloxton, along with NRAO astronomers observed the object again one month later. The new observation confirmed that the object is

A West Virginia high-school student has discovered a new astronomical object -- a strange type of neutron star called a rotating radio transient. Lucas Boylard, a sophomore at South Harrison High School in Clarksburg, W.Va., made the discovery while participating in the Pulsar Search Collaborative, an ITEST project, in which students are trained to scrutinize data from the National Science Foundation's giant Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope