Comments on: Laying down the pulsar beat

By: Bill Bones

Bill Bones — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:59:59 +0000

Awesome^10. Not sure many will a be able to appreciate, though.

By: Jabjabs

Jabjabs — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:02:25 +0000

Well at least they now have the biggest known drummer working for them.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:26:51 +0000

It’s the bee’s knees!

By: Maagaard

Maagaard — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:53:47 +0000

Here is the sound from 5 pulsars…
Even though I know the physics going on i still find it quite eerie.

Please ignote cheesy art in video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0P6x_xDEU

By: Tara Li

Tara Li — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:46:13 +0000

And apparently, even the bands playing on pulsars occasionally have break-ups and re-union tours!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21304

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:30:31 +0000

@2 Dr_cy_coe
LOL. They should make that a ring tone. You’d always be saying, “No, it’s a pulsar, really”

By: VJBinCT

VJBinCT — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:58:42 +0000

Back in 1968, as a grad student, my NASA boss was a visiting prof at Berkeley, so we had access to the 120″ at Lick. I was there once a day early, and a group from one of the UC schools got some time to look at the pulsar in the Crab in video. I tagged along. They put a video camera with frame strobe at the coude focus, and synced it to the period of the pulsar, as you would a flashlamp stroboscope. Truly awesome to see the 30 Hz pulsar at 1-2 Hz. I think that I was probably one of the first half dozen or so people to see a pulsar pulsing by eye in ‘real time’. Had a really good time as a grad student, I must say. Some adventures, but this was the best scientific one.

By: Cosas de Pulsars | Pablo Della Paolera

Cosas de Pulsars | Pablo Della Paolera — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:13:25 +0000

[...] Laying down the pulsar beat [...]

By: Dr_cy_coe

Dr_cy_coe — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:04:34 +0000

This.. is.. awesome!
Kids will love this, especially from 1:42 onwards. If there’s a better way to get kids appreciative of science than through interstellar fart-noises, I don’t know what that could be.

By: fj

fj — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:44:16 +0000

And don't forget the Wheel of Stars. It's more sound than music, but quite fascinating.

By: Pete Jackson

Pete Jackson — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:12:09 +0000

This is definitely something we should be beaming out to interstellar space to show the accomplishments of our civilization!

Nice time-lapse of a planetarium.