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 161 episodes available.

George's Random Astronomical Object episodes:

November 29, 2021 Object 61: Greater Than One
SPT-CL J0546-5345 is an abnormally large cluster that formed very quickly after the Big Bang, which places some strong constraints of models of the formation and evolution of the universe.
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14min
November 15, 2021 Object 60: Conclusively Inconclusive
UM 425 could be either a pair of very similar quasars at the same distance from Earth or a single quasar that has been gravitationally lensed so that it appears twice in the sky.
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10min
November 01, 2021 Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV Cephei
VW Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system containing two stars that are so close that they share an outer gas layer.
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8min
October 18, 2021 Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here
Chi Cygni is a Mira-type variable star with some of the most extreme variations in brightness among any variable stars in the sky.
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11min
October 04, 2021 Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei
3C 147 is not the first object ever identified as a quasar, but it is sort of one of the first two objects ever called a quasar.
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13min
September 20, 2021 Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet
Astronomers may not have found an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 191089, but they found the next best thing.
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10min
September 06, 2021 Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the Playground
The WLM Galaxy is located at the edge of the Local Group where it is relatively unaffected by everything happening around the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.
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10min
August 23, 2021 Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home
Jets of gas that are several light years long are emerging from the blue supergiant MWC 137, and no one knows why.
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11min
August 09, 2021 Object 53: Fortified with Iron
Most globular clusters are among the first stars to form in the universe, but the globular cluster NGC 6352 seems abnormally young in comparison.
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10min
July 26, 2021 Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery
It took 10 years of observations for astronomers to determine that the star HD 154345 had a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting it.
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11min

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