[Raphmedia]

It's actually an old image of the radio pulses of a pulsar stacked on top of each other.

[deepnet]

It is CP1919, the first pulsar, discovered by Jocelyn Bell. It won a nobel prize for Anthony Hewish who led the project.

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell on BBC radio's Life Scientific http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016812j