suggests that the "zebra" pattern is an interference effect caused by the diffraction of light on varying plasma densities in the pulsar's magnetosphere. "If you have a screen and an ...

Whether it's some pattern of fluid flow in the Earth's atmosphere; whether it's the magnetosphere of pulsar; whether it's all kinds of other things. These are things which are computationally just ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel shows ...