Measurement of gravitational spin-orbit coupling in a binary pulsar   system
  In relativistic gravity, a spinning pulsar will precess as it orbits a compact companion star. We have measured the effect of such precession on the average shape and polarization of the radiation from PSR B1534+12. We have also detected, with limited precision, special-relativistic aberration of the revolving pulsar beam due to orbital motion. Our observations fix the system geometry, including the misalignment between the spin and orbital angular momenta, and yield a measurement of the precession timescale consistent with the predictions of General Relativity. 
I. H. Stairs (UBC), S. E. Thorsett (UCSC), Z. Arzoumanian (NASA-GSFC)