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A different topic today. I know many of you people (like me!) love Joy Division. Perhaps, some of you don't know the story behind the super famous cover of Unknown Pleasures. Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (1979) cover was designed by Peter Saville, it is based on a data visualization of radio waves from pulsar CP 1919, superimposed vertically, from The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy. 1977. Those pulses occur every 1.337 seconds and were caused by rapidly spinning neutron star. Saville reversed the image from black-on-white to white-on-black, against the band's preference for the original. He printed it on a textured card for the original version of the album. Originally named CP 1919, the pulsar was discovered in November 1967 by student Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University. As the star turns, it emits electromagnetic radiation in a beam like a lighthouse, which can be picked up by radio telescopes. Each line on the image is an individual pulse. They are not exactly the same each time as the long distance the beam travels introduces interference. {Sources: Wikipedia, Scientific American, The Washington Post} #joydivision #unknownpleasures #iancurtis #pulsar #cult #pop #astronomy #cambridge #postpunk #punk #brit #70s #darkwave #newwave #collection #library #woodcut #popculture