Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder)
Astronomy Cast
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Pulsars have fairly unique spin rates. You can then use these to figure out your position. This was used to locate the sun within our galaxy on the voyager gold disk. And it was also used tefoundation series to allow one of the characters to figure out where the spacecraft she was on happened to be located.
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