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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April 19, 2021 Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again
Markarian 590 contains an active galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole, and the region around the black hole has strangely changed in brightness a couple of times in the past 50 years.
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9min
April 05, 2021 Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery
When it was discovered, WD 0806-661B was described as a very cool, very low mass brown dwarf, but it could actually be better characterized as a large exoplanet.
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10min
March 22, 2021 Object 43: Does It Dark Matter?
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 may be one of the very few galaxies that contains no dark matter, although the non-existence of something we cannot see in this galaxy is still being debated.
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11min
March 08, 2021 Object 42: The Inside Joke Galaxy
The dust disk in the spiral galaxy NGC 891 is so useful for studying interstellar dust that many astronomers show up to conferences with science results specifically about this spiral galaxy.
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12min
February 22, 2021 Object 41: Bobbins
BoBn 1 is not only a planetary nebula with an odd-to-pronounce name but also one of a very few planetary nebulae that have been found in the Milky Way's halo.
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11min
February 08, 2021 Object 40: Sugar Formation
IRAS 16293-2422 is a complex protostellar object that contains multiple objects that are forming into Sun-like stars.
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10min
January 25, 2021 Object 39: Sort of Faster than the Speed of Light
Gas ejected from the center of the quasar 1642+690 looks like it's travelling faster than the speed of light even though it isn't.
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9min
January 11, 2021 Object 38: The Clickbait Star
HD 220140 is often referred to as a naked young star, and it is a source of both X-ray emission and double entendres.
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10min
December 28, 2020 Object 37: Blowing Bubbles (or Cavities)
Hickson Compact Group 62 contains hot intracluster gas with two large cavities (which I want to call bubbles) that formed from gas that was blown out of the galaxy at the centre of the group.
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10min
December 14, 2020 Object 36: Seventeen Ways to Oscillate
HD 60435 is a nearby example of a class of stars called rapidly oscillating Ap stars that can change brightness in just a few minutes.
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12min

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