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 139 episodes available.

George's Random Astronomical Object episodes:

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
November 11, 2024 Object 137: The Bedtime Story of the Black Hole that was Too Large for its Galaxy
The elliptical galaxy NGC 4291 contains a supermassive black hole that is unusually massive in comparison to the rest of the galaxy.
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9min
October 28, 2024 Object 136: Barium
HD 11397 is one of very few Sun-like stars that might seem ordinary but actually contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements, most notably barium, that they could not have formed themselves.
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11min
October 14, 2024 Object 135: Feedback Time
NGC 3801 is one of the very few nearby galaxies where astronomers can see jets from an active galactic nucleus disrupting star formation in the galaxy in a process known as feedback.
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10min
September 30, 2024 Object 134: Not Dead Yet
The star at the center of the planetary nebula NGC 7094 is almost but not quite a white dwarf, making it a rather unusual object for astronomers to look at.
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8min
September 16, 2024 Object 133: Strong Arm Tactics
One of the spiral arms in the galaxy NGC 3110 is producing unusually huge amounts of new stars as well as unusually huge amounts of infrared emission.
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10min
September 02, 2024 Object 132: I Need a 2002 Pop Culture Reference
The radio source PMN J0134-0931 created a lot of excitement in 2002 when people discovered that it was a quasar gravitationally lensed by another galaxy in front of it, they were really excited.
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12min
August 19, 2024 Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors
Hydrus I is a very small, ultrafaint dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way that was accidentally (or, to use the technical term, serendipitously) found by the Dark Energy Survey.
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10min
August 05, 2024 Object 130: Putting It All Together
NGC 4261 was made famous when Hubble Space Telescope observations in the 1990s showed that this elliptical galaxy contains a supermassive black hole.
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8min

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