ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

Monday, December 24, 2018 - 03:20 in Astronomy & Space

ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands has begun running a pulsar-based clock. The ‘PulChron’ system measures the passing of time using millisecond-frequency radio pulses from multiple fast-spinning neutron stars.

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