I’ve thought for a while that pulsars would make good navigation beacons. And it appears that they do.
You can still get your ship’s crew lost in space, of course. Just have the pulsar detector break down, or its database get corrupted.
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Surely there would also be places where the view was blocked, such as by dust clouds? Or, depending on the frequencies examined, by strong local magnetic fields?
Oh, good thinking.