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Pulsars have extremely short periods; in some cases seconds, in some cases just a few milliseconds. There is no way a typical star, with its great size (for example, a diameter of 1.4 million kilometers in the case of our Sun) can pulsate that quickly.

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What type of navigation tool could be utilized in exploring the universe?

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