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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 174 episodes available.
April 27, 2026Object 174: Toy ExoplanetsThe red dwarf TOI-700 has at least four exoplanets orbiting it, and two of them are Earth-sized exoplanets lying within the star system's habitable zone....more11minPlay
April 13, 2026Object 173: The Hot CalibratorG191-B2B is a hot white dwarf with a layer of nearly pure oxygen that has been used as a flux calibration source for one particularly famous telescope....more11minPlay
March 30, 2026Object 172: Lego Minifigures with MasersVY Canis Majoris is not only much, much larger than the Sun but is also ejecting blobs of gas that are forming molecules and dust....more10minPlay
March 16, 2026Object 171: Guess Again3C 324 was once identified as a possible gravitational lens where one galaxy was bending the light from a galaxy behind it, but it turned out to be something different....more9minPlay
March 02, 2026Object 170: Don't Forget the FeedbackNGC 2639 may look like an ordinary spiral galaxy, but it contains an active galactic nucleus with jets of gas that have emerged from that nucleus in four different directions, which is, to use the technical term, quite weird....more9minPlay
February 16, 2026Object 169: No Longer a SuspectLGS 3 (also known as the Pisces Dwarf Galaxy) is a nearby but faint dwarf galaxy that has provided some interesting clues as to how stars formed in the early universe....more10minPlay
February 02, 2026Object 168: A Very Good Looking Scientific FootnoteWhile not many professional astronomers have spent much time looking at the open cluster Messier 103, it is still a spectacular object to see in an amateur astronomy telescope....more8minPlay
January 19, 2026Object 167: Controversial RadiowavesAstronomers have been studying the radiowave emission from the cluster of galaxies Abell 4038 quite intently and have provided both conventional and unconventional explanations for its origin....more10minPlay
January 05, 2026Object 166: An Overlooked ClusterThe southern open cluster IC 2602, also known as the Theta Carinae Cluster or the Southern Pleiades, may not be as famous as some open clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere, but it is still a good place for professional astronomers to study young stars, and it's also a good amateur astronomy target....more11minPlay
December 22, 2025Object 165: A Hole in the CloudsBaade's Window is an unusual hole through the interstellar dust in the Milky Way's disk through which astronomers can very clearly see the stars near the center of our galaxy....more9minPlay
FAQs about George's Random Astronomical Object:How many episodes does George's Random Astronomical Object have?The podcast currently has 174 episodes available.