{"id":623755,"date":"2019-07-12T09:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=623755"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:50:01","slug":"joy-division-40-years-on-from-unknown-pleasures-astronomers-revisit-the-pulsar-from-the-iconic-album-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=623755","title":{"rendered":"Joy Division: 40 years on from &#039;Unknown Pleasures,&#039; astronomers revisit the pulsar from the iconic album cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album &#8220;Unknown Pleasures&#8221; 40 years ago. The front cover doesn&#8217;t feature any words, only a now iconic black and white data graph showing 80 wiggly lines representing a signal from a pulsar in space. To mark the anniversary of the album, we recorded a signal from the same pulsar with a radio telescope in Jodrell Bank Observatory, only 14 miles (23 km) away from Strawberry Studios where the album was recorded.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-07-joy-division-years-unknown-pleasures.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Joy Division: 40 years on from &#8216;Unknown Pleasures,&#8217; astronomers revisit the pulsar from the iconic album cover<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English rock band Joy Division released their debut studio album &#8220;Unknown Pleasures&#8221; 40 years ago. The front cover doesn&#8217;t feature any words, only a now iconic black and white&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}