{"id":199722,"date":"2024-11-19T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/theoretical-astrophysicist-proposes-solution-to-enigma-of-crab-nebulas-zebra-pattern"},"modified":"2024-11-19T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:23:07","slug":"theoretical-astrophysicist-proposes-solution-to-enigma-of-crab-nebulas-zebra-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/theoretical-astrophysicist-proposes-solution-to-enigma-of-crab-nebulas-zebra-pattern","title":{"rendered":"Theoretical astrophysicist proposes solution to enigma of Crab Nebula\u2019s \u2018zebra\u2019 pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theoretical-astrophysicist-proposes-solution-to-enigma-of-crab-nebulas-zebra-pattern.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual \u201czebra\u201d pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula.<\/p>\n<p>His findings have just been <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.205201\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed into a 12-mile-wide pulsar pinwheeling electromagnetic radiation across the cosmos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A theoretical astrophysicist from the University of Kansas may have solved a nearly two-decade-old mystery over the origins of an unusual \u201czebra\u201d pattern seen in high-frequency radio pulses from the Crab Nebula. His findings have just been published in Physical Review Letters. The Crab Nebula features a neutron star at its center that has formed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}