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George"s Random Astronomical Object

George"s Random Astronomical Object is a biweekly astronomy podcast featuring science discussions about astronomical objects at randomly selected locations in the sky. The wide range of topics discussed in the show include stars, variable stars, variable variable stars, supermassive black holes, ultracool dwarf stars, exoplanets, howler monkeys, infrared radiation, acronyms, more acronyms, starbursts, measurements of less than 12 parsecs, jellyfish galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, and general overall

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10:00

Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/06/15

A number of peculiarities about the lenticular galaxy NGC 5102 indicate that a dwarf galaxy fell into it several hundred million years ago.

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14:59

Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/06/01

NGC 55 has the interesting distinction of being the closest galaxy to Earth that is seen edge-on, and it also contains an ultraminous X-ray source (ULX) uncreatively named NGC 55 ULX.

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09:43

Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/05/18

NGC 281, which is also called the Pacman Nebula, is a place where star formation has been triggered two different ways, although the stars are not chased by any Ghost Nebulae.

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10:39

Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/05/04

Even though it may be rather ordinary from a scientific standpoint, the open cluster Messier 23 is a very popular with amateur astronomers.

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09:33

Object 19: Probably Not the Y2K Bug

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/04/20

Everything about the triple star system V505 Sgr looked normal aside from an abrupt change in the orbits of the stars sometime around the year 2000.

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07:34

Object 18: 0.2 Seconds of Gamma Rays

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/04/06

The short gamma ray burst GRB 100206A was found in a luminous infrared galaxy, which is very unusual place to find such gamma ray bursts.

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09:22

Object 17: Confusing U

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/03/23

4U 1957+115 is a low mass X-ray binary, a binary star system with a normal star about the size of the Sun and a relatively small black hole three times the mass of the Sun, and it also has an unfortunately confusing name.

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13:55

Object 16: Playing Golf on the Moon

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/03/09

The extremely bright, point-like emission from J1955+5131 in visible light and radio waves makes it useful for matching up images from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as an interesting object in its own right.

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13:36

Object 15: Calibrated Variability

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/02/24

Despite the variability of the gamma radiation from J0510+1800, this blazar is used as a flux calibrator at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths.

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10:18

Object 14: Exoplanetary Acronym 103b

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/02/10

WASP-103 has an acronym for a name and also has a gaseous planet orbiting so close to it that the planet is in danger of being destroyed.

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07:55

Object 13: Stellar Companion Facial Reconstruction

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/01/27

BV Centaurus is an unusual example of a class of U Gem cataclysmic variable stars in which a white dwarf is stripping gas from a companion star.

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11:00

Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2020/01/13

ELAIS N1 is a extragalactic deep field selected specifically for identifying many distant, faint galaxies at infrared wavelengths.

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09:06

Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/12/30

Psi Capricorni was the first star other than the Sun where the phenomenon of differental rotation was ever measured.

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11:28

Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/12/16

Abell 85 is a large, nearby cluster of galaxies with so many things happening inside that it could be called a ball of chaos.

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09:34

Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/12/02

The star HD 214714 contains not only a large amount of carbon in its stellar atmosphere but also a peculiar combination of other heavy elements as well.

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10:58

Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/11/18

II Zw 96 is a luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) where most of the infrared emission comes from some type of off-center region, which is weird compared to most other LIRGs.

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11:23

Object 7: Circles within Circles

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/11/04

30 Ari contains four stars and an exoplanet all arranged in a rather complex set of nested orbits.

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08:15

Object 6: Extra Peculiar

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/10/21

HD 98851 is both an Am chemically peculiar star and a delta Scuti variable star, and it has two different pulsation cycles, which makes it really peculiar.

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10:31

Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/10/07

RV Octantis would be considered a run-of-the-mill RR Lyrae variable star if it wasn't for the unexpected discovery of helium in its atmosphere.

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13:35

Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2019/09/23

The most interesting thing about the quasar LBSQ 0058+0155 is not the quasar itself but the galaxy between the quasar and Earth.

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