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George's Random Astronomical Object episodes
- Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar SemanticsThe star HD 131835 had a circumstellar disk of dust and gas that technically is neither a debris disk nor a protoplanetary disk but instead some sort of weird hybrid of these two things.12 min
- Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for EveryoneLocated within the Local Group, the dwarf galaxy IC 1613 has been popular with professional astronomers for a variety of reasons, and it is also a notable albeit difficult-to-see amateur astronomy object as well.13 min
- Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray FlashbackGRB 980326 was the first gamma ray burst to be associated with a supernova, which was truly groundbreaking even if the astronomers who discovered it were probably using Netscape at the time.11 min
- Object 76: A Modern Non-CometSakurai's Object was discovered in 1996 by the amateur astronomer Yukio Sakurai, who had been searching for comets but who had instead found a dying star that had brifly undergone a final burst of fusion, causing it to increase dramatically in brightness.9 min
- Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open ClusterThe open cluster NGC 3680 is 1.4 billion years old, making it unusually long-lived for such a cluster.10 min
- Object 74: The Brightest Star on the ArgoAs 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.13 min
- Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared SmudgeThe hyperluminous infrared galaxy IRAS 10214+4724 was the most distant infrared object seen by astronomers in the 1980s.15 min
- Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for MonocerotisGX 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.9 min
- Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning CoffeeThe 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.10 min
- Object 70: The Uncredited StarEta Aquilae was the first Cepheid variable ever discovered, but this class of stars was named after Delta Cephei instead.9 min
About George's Random Astronomical Object
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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…
discussed in the show include stars, variable stars, variable variable stars, supermassive black holes, ultracool dwarf stars, exoplanets, howler monkeys, infrared radiation, acronyms, more acronyms, starbursts, measurements of less than 12 parsecs, jellyfish galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, and general overall weirdness.
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