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A Strange Signal Beamed at Earth From a Dead Star Can Finally Be Explained

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The Crab Pulsar is the hectic remnant of a supernova some 6,200 light-years away that bloomed in Earth 's sky in 1054 CE.

The zebra pattern looks like a strange spacing of wavelength bands when graphed, resembling the spiky zig-zag stripes of a zebra.

It is an interference pattern generated by the diffraction of light by different plasma densities inside the pulsar's magnetosphere.

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