838: Using Pulsars to Navigate in Space with Dr. Zach Putnam
Universe Today Podcast
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X-Ray Detection
Some cresian baseball stars are spinning up because they're warping the angular momentum from this other star. And we've even observed ones that have switched huh. But it is all still pretty stable, at least enough for us to use for navigation purposes. For a hundred reds or thousands of years, they're roughly similar. So you've got these, these these bursts of x rays that are coming in our direction. You're detecting them with some instrument on board your space craft. What are you detecting that allow ow you to figure out your position? Uh, yes.
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