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by sliken 1092 days ago
Indeed, and part of the magic is knowing jupiters position with a very high precision. Said precision was delivered by the Juno probe in 2016 or so. With that precision we now know the earth position with much more accuracy. The trick is the jupiter and sun orbit around a point outside the surface of the sun. Said point (barycenter) is the point the earth rotates around.

The increased positional accuracy of the earth allows teasing out the distortion from to various pulsars to use the galaxy as a ligo like gravity wave detector.