Nature's most precise clocks may make 'galactic GPS' possible
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 07:28
in Astronomy & Space
Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made the discovery in less than three months. Such a jump in the pace of locating these hard-to-find objects holds the promise of using them as a kind of 'galactic GPS' to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth...