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David Brown recognized leader in Surface application design and development, is showing off his latest update for NUIverse. NUIverse is an application for Surface that is truly immerse, inviting people to explore our universe utilizing Natural User Interface(NUI). NUIverse is perhaps one of the most unique apps that shows of our universe in a creative way.
German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.
These dense, burnt-out stars rotate rapidly, sweeping their emission across the cosmos at rates that are so stable they rival atomic clock performance
If a spacecraft carried the means to detect the pulses, it could compare their arrival times with those predicted at a reference location. This would enable the craft to determine its position to an accuracy of just five kilometres anywhere in the galaxy.