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Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 02:10:54 UTC Corey S Powell
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You may have seen a plot of the radio signal from pulsar B1919+21 without realizing it -- it's the cover image of Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" album. https://theconversation.com/joy-division-40-years-on-from-unknown-pleasures-astronomers-have-revisited-the-pulsar-from-the-iconic-album-cover-119861 #space #OTD #joydivision
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1. Joy Division: 40 years on from 'Unknown Pleasures', astronomers have revisited the pulsar from the iconic album cover
  
  from Patrick Weltevrede
  
  When you look at the squiggly lines on Joy Division’s famous album cover, you’re seeing a record of lightning in outer space.
- Corey S Powell (coreyspowell@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 02:10:55 UTC Corey S Powell
  
  55 years ago #today Jocelyn Bell discovered the first known pulsar -- a star the size of a city, spinning once a second, whipping up intense radio signals that sounded like the beep-beep-beep of an alien signal.
  In her own words: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/journeysofdiscovery-pulsars #astronomy #discovery
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  1. Jocelyn Bell's radio signal that led to the discovery of pulsars.
    https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/109/424/467/766/170/183/original/1da03ac6b73ed47c.jpg
  2. Journeys of discovery
    
    from Louise Walsh
    
    "On 28 November 1967, it came again, a string of pulses.” This was not the work of Little Green Men. Jocelyn Bell had discovered pulsars.
  María Pérez :fedi: :Garf: repeated this.

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