The discovery of the first-known double pulsar system, made with CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope, has been named by the journal ‘Science’ as one of the top ten breakthroughs of 2004.
The discovery was published in Science on 8 January 2004.
Science’s ‘top ten’
Online (CSIRO-accessible)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5704/2013#top
PDF download
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/306/5704/2013
News story in The Australian
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11721477%255E2702,00.html