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A mysterious striped signal from the Crab Pulsar may finally be explained by a delicate balance between plasma effects and ...
For the past two decades, scientists have wondered about a bright, distinct striped pattern seen in radio waves emanating ...
Horseflies misjudge landings on zebra patterns, compared with solid gray or black surfaces, which provides evidence for why evolution came up with the black-and-white pattern. Everyone loves zebras.
Prince Edwards Islands in the South Indian Ocean had a psychedelic show this month and it wasn’t at a concert stadium, it was in the sky. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ...
Historical records from around the world describe a bright star appearing in the sky in the year 1054. Today, astronomers are confident that what our ancestors were seeing was, in truth, a star that ...