Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder)
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- Mon 21 Feb 2022
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- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/astro52/AstroCast-20220221-Full_Raw.mp3
Pulsars are the rapidly spinning degenerate husks of dead stars, turning hundreds of times a second. But they're also handy clocks, spinning with such certainty and accuracy that astronomers can use them for all kinds of stuff. We might even use them to navigate the cosmos.
