The most famous pulsar in music history

PSR B1919+21 #joydivision #unknownpleasures #album #artwork #music #musichistory #Astronomy #pulsar #outerspace #radiowaves #origin #book

[NoNameX_X]

“hey what song are you listening to?”
“it’s complicated”

[WokeUpScreaming]

Holy crap!!! I've always wondered what that album cover actually was!!! Thabk you so much!

[houseisrocking]

I got to have lunch with Jocelyn Bell when she visited my university a few years ago. The absolute nicest person you will ever meet and straight up wicked smart.

[Daniel-]

I guess their music is astronomically good

[ugoman]

I recently wrote a paper on the guy who *made* that album cover, Peter Saville. That's crazy to learn where he got the image from.

[pataykaftw]

wow, Michael has been uploading a lot recently

[axelprino]

Wait, that's were it came from? I've always assumed it represented soundwaves, never knew it was from a pulsar, that's really cool!

[eleni]

I analyzed the raw data of the first discovered pulsar last year in an astronomy practical!! Our teacher made us remake the joy division album cover, but without mentioning that we were remaking it:P I was extremely surprised by the result! I was so amazed and shocked that I suddenly remade the album cover and what the album cover actually was, that I started telling my encounter and showing my data analysis to everyone I knew. I would end my really long story and code with showing my final plot and asking them: "Do YoU ReCoGniZe iT?!?!?!?!". Most of the time the person would be tired from listening to my far too complicated story haha, but you told it amazingly!!! I'm so surprised that I encounter it again like this!! It's such a good story!

[thepancakereviewer]

By the time you finish Unknown Pleasures, the earth would be bathed by a Pulsars radio waves about 1818 times

[BludgeonedDEATH]

I love Joy Division so I knew exactly where this was going, so cool to have Michael upload this :)

[maddy]

My sister, a doctor of psychology, once bought a Joy Division T-shirt thinking it was brain waves. I thought that was cute lol

[UNDERSOCIALITE]

unknown pleasures is one of the best albums ever

[bron-yr-aur]

Never thought I’d see a video mixing two of my favorite things: Vsauce and Joy Division.

[antoniofaulkner]

That's so coincidental. A couple of weeks ago, I went on a school trip with my physics teacher and we went to a university. The theme was essentially the perfect merging of astronomy and music. Combination of the lecturer within the auditorium alongside the absolutely phenomenal music (and the live instruments) simply depend my love for both music and astronomy. As well as reinvigorated my understanding of how powerful and transcendental music really is.

[Calico_Chip]

I have been watching Vsauce on and off over a few years and every time I come back I'm still never bored of it, even when I rewatch your older videos. I'm always intrigued by your experiments and you stuff just never gets old.

[sheisnotmyname]

I have an exam of economics in 1 hour, but Vsauce is also important

[ApocalypseMoose]

When Michael goes on a tangent in a video, *he's lost control again.*

[camrynb]

Wow listened to joy division my whole life and never knew what that design was! Cool!

[kjamison]

I had the honour of meeting Jocelyn Bell Burnell - what a gracious lady.

[valeniusthekat]

I had that album!!!! Joy Division is like no "New Dawn Fades"🎶🥰👍