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What is a pulsar? How can we use them to map gravitational waves? What kind of technology does it take? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

00:00 - Gravitational Waves
02:26 - The Limitations of LIGO
05:14 - Sources of Low Frequency Gravitational Waves
08:02 - The Magic of Millisecond Pulsars
11:34 - Pulsar Timing Arrays