After 20 years, scientists finally explain the Crab Pulsar’s strange “zebra stripes”

For more than 20 years, astronomers have been puzzled by a striking pattern of bright, evenly spaced stripes in the radio waves coming from the Crab Pulsar, the dense remnant of a supernova recorded by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054.

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