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Astronomer Deciphers Crab Pulsar’s Zebra Stripes

New research from the University of Kansas untangles a decades-old astrophysical puzzle, showing how competing forces -- gravity’s pull and magnetospheric plasma -- split the radio emissions emanating from the Crab Pulsar, the remnant of a supernova observed by ancient astronomers in 1054 CE, into perfectly spaced ‘stripes.’

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