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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George's Random Astronomical Object episodes:

June 13, 2022 Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster
The open cluster NGC 3680 is 1.4 billion years old, making it unusually long-lived for such a cluster.
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10min
May 30, 2022 Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo
As the second brightest star in the night sky, Canopus is associated with many different myths, yet as the closest yellow supergiant to Earth, the star is also scientifically important.
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13min
May 16, 2022 Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge
The hyperluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10214+4724 was the most distant infrared object seen by astronomers in the 1980s.
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15min
May 02, 2022 Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis
GX Monocerotis is a evolved star near the end of its life that is expelling its outer gas layers, and because the star is in orbit in a binary star system, those gas layers have formed a spiral pattern.
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9min
April 18, 2022 Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee
The center of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 71 contains multiple regions where stars are forming as well as an inactive supermassive black home that needs some caffeine.
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10min
April 04, 2022 Object 70: The Uncredited Star
Eta Aquilae was the first Cepheid variable ever discovered, but this class of stars was named after Delta Cephei instead.
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9min
March 21, 2022 Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids
The North Ecliptical Pole points to a location perpendicular to the plane of the Solar System, which makes it a unique place for certain types of astronomical observations.
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12min
March 07, 2022 Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks
The spiral galaxy NGC 6814 is a source of strong but variable X-ray emission that astronomers are using to measure the mass of a supermassive black hole at its center.
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10min
February 21, 2022 Object 67: The Weird Sphere
The abnormal-looking globular cluster Messier 71 is unusual in that its stars contain an excessive amount of heavy elements and in that it is being gravitationally shredded by the Milky Way.
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13min
February 07, 2022 Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B
The binary star system b Centauri contains an exoplanet named b Centauri b that, despite its confusing name, has changed astronomers' perspectives on how and where planets can form.
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15min

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