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Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder)

Astronomy Cast

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 631: All The Uses Of Pulsars (Including Murder) by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay 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.

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Attorney cast episode 631 all the uses of pulsars

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Welcome to astronomy cast are weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand

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Not only what we know, but how we know what we know I'm Fris or Kane publisher of University

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With me is always a doctor Pamela gay as a neuroscientist for the planetary science institute and the director of Cosmo quest hey Pamela

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Hey, I'm doing well

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We've been working with daily space to get things going with a new format that we're super proud of and

1:19.4

We are now bringing a mix of rockets and science

1:23.9

Thanks to our growing staff. So if you're not listening to daily space podcast listen to the daily space podcast

1:33.1

You you really are creating a media empire and

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I and you're creating a formidable competitor to universe today, and I couldn't be happier

1:47.4

No, we are a collaborator. Well, yeah, no exactly

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We've said this many times before that this then space is big in this room for all of this and so I'm so happy that that you guys are doing this more

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genuine good space science news reporting please

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Pulsars are the rapidly spinning degenerate husks of dead stars turning hundreds of times a second

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But they're also handy clocks spinning with such certainty and accuracy that astronomers can use them for all kinds of stuff

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We might even use them to navigate the cosmos

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All right Pamela. This is another one of your episodes. You cute up this topic, and I love it

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And I mean like I love I sort of have the saying that like

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There are things in the universe that we don't understand

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But we use them

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