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The discovery that signals from pulsating radio sources are linearly polarized means that interstellar magnetic fields in the local part of the Galaxy can be measured.
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Davies, J. G., Horton, P. W., Lyne, A. G., Rickett, B. J., and Smith, F. G., Nature, 217, 910 (1968).
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SMITH, F. Measurement of the Interstellar Magnetic Field. Nature 218, 325–326 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218325a0
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