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Optical Pulsations in the Crab Nebula Pulsar

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The discovery of strong light flashes from pulsar NP 0532 is confirmed in this paper from McDonald Observatory.

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NATHER, R., WARNER, B. & MACFARLANE, M. Optical Pulsations in the Crab Nebula Pulsar. Nature 221, 527–529 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/221527a0

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