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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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All Episodes

08:35

Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/07/24

PSR B1509-58 is a relatively young pulsar that sits within a supernova remnant that looks like a giant hand.

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07:14

Object 102: Another Ring Thing

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/07/10

The spiral galaxy NGC 7552 is best known for its relatively small but bright starburst ring.

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11:48

Object 101: Warm and Cold

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/06/26

The star Eta Corvi is surrounded by a disk of dust with a rather complex structure and rather complex origin.

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13:52

Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/06/12

The Taurus Molecular Cloud is exactly what it sounds like it is, a cloud made of mulecular gas (mostly molecular hydrogen) in the constellation Taurus, but it is also much more than that.

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09:41

Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/05/27

Abell 514 is a cluster of galaxies that contains six radio galaxies, and the polarized radio emission from those six radio galaxies can be used to probe the magnetic fields within the cluster.

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11:50

Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/05/15

Markarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes.

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11:24

Object 97: A Runaway Cow

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/05/01

Mu Columbae is a bright, blue star that was ejected from the Orion Nebula in a complex gravitational interaction involving three other stars.

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11:29

Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/04/17

WASP-1 was the first star identified as having an exoplanet by the Wide Angle Search for Planets and thus helped to validate the techniques used by that survey.

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08:06

Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological Relics

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/04/03

The cluster Abell 168 formed from the merger of two smaller clusters, and this had many weird effects on the intracluster gas between the galaxies.

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08:22

Object 94: So Hot and So Small

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/03/20

WD 2211-495 is a small, hot white dwarf with a rather unusual amount of heavy elements in its outer atmosphere, implying that something from a surrounding planetary system occasionally falls into the star.

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09:05

Object 93: Superthin

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/03/07

UGC 7321 is an unusually flat (or superthin) spiral galaxy, which is indicative of how it has avoided gravitational interactions with other galaxies that could alter its shape.

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11:43

Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy Instead

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/02/20

The elliptical galaxy contains an abnormal amount of interstellar dust with no accompanying interstellar gas, which is weird.

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11:26

Object 91: The Second Air Pump Galaxy

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/02/06

Antlia 2, which was recently found orbiting the Milky Way, is the most diffuse galaxy that anyone has ever discovered up to this point in time.

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09:17

Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest Fire

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/01/23

UKS 1 probably lies on the far side of the Milky Way, and the light from the cluster is heavily obscured by interstellar dust, but even though it's hard to see, astronomers are still really interested in it.

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08:57

Object 89: Relationship Status - It's Complicated

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2023/01/09

R Aquarii could be described as one of the closest symbiotic binary star systems to Earth, but it's more complicated than that.

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11:30

Object 88: Some Sort of Weird, Ultraviolet Freak of...

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2022/12/26

NGC 6052 looks like a spiral galaxy smashing into a wall of stars, which is more or less what is actually happening.

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09:31

Object 87: The Fake Sphere

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2022/11/28

Although at first NGC 6781 may look like a spherical planetary nebula, it actually has a cylindrical shape, which has rather complex scientific implications for analyzing this object.

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12:44

Object 86: Two Hellscapes Orbiting a Red Dwarf

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2022/11/14

The red dwarf HD 260655 has two large, hot, rocky planets orbiting very close to it.

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12:05

Object 85: The Swedish Stellar Superstore

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2022/10/31

As the largest open cluster that anyone has found in the Milky Way, Westerlund 1 contains a lot of rare and weird stars.

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09:08

Object 84: Eccentricity

George"s Random Astronomical Object ·

2022/10/17

The evolved red star HD 214362 is orbiting the center of the Milky Way in a very eccentric way (as in either its orbit is a very elongated ellipse or its orbit is just plainly strange).

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