Song of the Black Widow Pulsar (Narrated)

The Black Widow pulsar is slowly blasting material off the surface of its partner, giving the brown dwarf a long comet-like tail. The pulsar’s beam is magnified as it passed through the clumpy tail, getting up to up to 40 times brighter. This is similar to the way that starlight twinkles after passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. All of the sounds in this video are created using actual data of the pulsar’s signal which was collected by the Arecibo radio telescope. The pulsar’s radio emission is convert