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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
FAQs about George's Random Astronomical Object:How many episodes does George's Random Astronomical Object have?The podcast currently has 163 episodes available.
November 24, 2025Object 163: Ludricous RotationThe pulsar PSR J1022+1001 is one of a small subclass of pulsars named millisecond pulsars because they rotate one every few milliseconds....more8minPlay
November 10, 2025Object 162: Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic CoinThe lenticular galaxy NGC 1172 contains two different populations of globular clusters, which indicates something about the history of the galaxy....more10minPlay
October 27, 2025Object 161: More SubclassificationsDy Pegasi is an SX Phoenicis type variable star, and SX Phoenicis type variable stars are a subset of Delta Scuti type variable stars, and this episode explains why that is confusing but what it also actually means....more9minPlay
October 13, 2025Object 160: A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard FontThe spiral galaxy NGC 3718 has an unusually weird spiral shape, which belies its unusual history....more9minPlay
September 29, 2025Object 159: That One Very Famous Double StarWhile amateur astronomers know that Albireo is a very spectacular-looking double star, professional astronomers are more interested in the dynamical complexities of Albireo's two star systems....more9minPlay
September 15, 2025Object 158: Dark BurstThe gamma ray burst GRB 020819 took place in a galaxy containing so much light-obscuring interstellar dust that people initially misidentified which galaxy contained the burst....more9minPlay
September 01, 2025Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three ExoplanetsThe nearby Sun-like star HD 69830 may have three exoplanets orbiting it, but astronomers seem more focused on trying to understand a hard-to-explain dust disk in the star system....more9minPlay
August 18, 2025Object 156: Dust PuffsZ Ursa Minor belongs to a class of variable stars that occasionally produce puffs of dust, but this is not the weeirdest thing about them....more8minPlay
August 04, 2025Object 155: PinwheelThe nearby face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 is one of the most popular galaxies in the sky for astronomers to study, particularly in terms of studying the relative abundances of various elements within the galaxy....more12minPlay
July 21, 2025Object 154: The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on HiatusA 0535+26 is a rather unusual star system called a Be high mass X-ray binary that periodically produces bursts of X-ray emission....more9minPlay
FAQs about George's Random Astronomical Object:How many episodes does George's Random Astronomical Object have?The podcast currently has 163 episodes available.