The cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures." It features a white "stack plot" on a black background. The lines, which record data from a radio telescope, form what looks like a mountain range.

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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Nov-2022 00:17:01 UTC Robert McNees

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   Evening addendum: The image on the cover of the Joy Division album "Unknown Pleasures" is from a plot that radio astronomer Harold Craft made for his PhD dissertation, using data collected at Arecibo while studying the pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

   This Scientific American article tracks down the original sources and links to video of an interview with album cover designer Peter Saville:
   https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/pop-culture-pulsar-origin-story-of-joy-division-s-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-video/