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Welcome to our archive of past news articles.
You will find previous articles listed below
from most the recent back to our first articles in 1996.
2010
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Nature's Most Precise Clocks May Make "Galactic GPS" Possible
[08 January 2010] - Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying otherwise unidentified sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers discovered all these pulsars within a span of less than three months. Locating these hard-to-find objects so rapidly holds the promise of using them as a kind of "galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth.
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