George's Random Astronomical Object

By George Bendo

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 discus... more

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The podcast currently has 147 episodes available.

George's Random Astronomical Object episodes:

March 31, 2025 Object 147: Nothing But Gas
Abell 1142 is a peculiar cluster of galaxies that has formed from the merger of two smaller clusters, and its center contains nothing but gas.
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9min
March 17, 2025 Object 146: The Prototype of Peculiar
SN 2002cx was the first supernova ever identified in a subclass of objects now called Type Iax supernovae.
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9min
March 03, 2025 Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time
PSR J1518+4904 is one of the very few identified double neutron stars, and it has provided opportunities to perform unique measurements on the objects.
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11min
February 17, 2025 Object 144: Heavy Metals
The stars in the open cluster NGC 6253 contain abnormally large amounts of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, and no one is quite certain why.
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9min
February 03, 2025 Object 143: Almost Absolutely Awesome
GJ 887 is a very close red dwarf with two exoplanets (and a potential third) that almost look like they could harbor life except for one potential problem.
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11min
January 20, 2025 Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found
The awkwardly-named Segue 2 is (as of the time of the publication of this episode) the smallest galaxy anyone has ever found.
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11min
January 06, 2025 Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral
Messier 74 is just a very nice looking face-on spiral galaxy, which has made it quite useful for many different types of astrophysical analyses.
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13min
December 23, 2024 Object 140: Imagine All the Dust
Infrared observations of SN 1995N indicate that the material ejected by the explosion may have produced a huge amount of dust.
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10min
December 09, 2024 Object 139: Recoil
The galaxy 3C 186 features a supermassive black hole with a mass several billions of times the mass of the Sun that has been ejected 36000 light years out of the galaxy's nucleus.
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9min
November 25, 2024 Object 138: A Weird Example of a Weird Subclass of a Weird Class of Objects
4U 1850-087 is an ultracompact binary star system consisting of a whtie dwarf and a neutron star orbiting each other so closely that the neutron star can strip the outer layers off of the white dwarf.
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9min

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