POVs And A Pulsar

"Elsewhere aboard, folk slept..."
-Poul Anderson, The Avatar, XXXV, p. 313.

Sometimes, the omniscient narrator directly informs the reader about natural or cosmic events. In those cases, we apprehend the events, as far as possible, without any awareness of a narrator - who is like a fully transparent window. Here, instead, he tells us about a number of people and it is evident that the narration does not come from the point of view (pov) of any one of those people:

Frieda and Dozsa sleep together;
Brodersen and Weisenberg sleep peacefully by themselves;
Joelle sleeps heavily, under sedation;
Rueda rolls about;
Susanne sleeps with a smile that comes and goes.

Who knows all this?

Caitlin is a busy woman, keeping three men happy, one after the other. This is narrated from her pov.

XXXVI is narrated by an avatar on Earth. In XXXVII, Brodersen's pov, Chinook arrives at a pulsar - and I will now emulate the Chinook crew by going peacefully to sleep.