Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula

Stranger4U writes "Researchers at New Mexico Tech and the NRAO have used the Aricebo radio telescope in Puerto Rico and some specilized equipment to more closely examine the pulses from the Crab Nebula pulsar. Some of the signals lasted less than two nanoseconds, meaning the originated from a volume no bigger than beach ball. Stories are here(1) and here(2)."

So that's where my beach ball went...

[Anonymous Coward]

I was playing with my beach ball, and all of a sudden it was gone. I should've known that crab on the beach was the one that took it. Now where the hell is his nebula?

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Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula

[DJPenguin]

Resolving Beachballs in the Crab Nebula - this has to be the most nonsensical headline I've EVER read!

Re:Actually....

[Metallic Matty]

That is very different than "it IS beachballs in space". Its a matter of degrees of confidence.

Only on /. would you find two individuals arguing the degree of confidence in the belief of beachballs in space.

Suffering Succotash!

[nlh]

Did anyone else notice the sheet number of alliterations the author of the first article used? I think someone wishes he weren't a science reporter....

Astronomers have tracked the long-sought source of brilliant beams that bounce across galaxies from super-dense spinning star...

...helps illuminate one of the most exotic environments ever perceived...

...a pulsar spews sprays of radio waves...

...A supernova marks the farewell flicker...

...expelling a great belch that spits the stellar shell into space...

etc...

Re:But Do They Have A Women's Beach Volleyball Tea

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but they all have crabs. :(