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George's Random Astronomical Object episodes
- Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV CepheiVW Cephei is an eclipsing binary star system containing two stars that are so close that they share an outer gas layer.8 min
- Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff HereChi Cygni is a Mira-type variable star with some of the most extreme variations in brightness among any variable stars in the sky.11 min
- Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei3C 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.13 min
- Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an ExoplanetAstronomers may not have found an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 191089, but they found the next best thing.10 min
- Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the PlaygroundThe 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.10 min
- Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At HomeJets of gas that are several light years long are emerging from the blue supergiant MWC 137, and no one knows why.11 min
- Object 53: Fortified with IronMost globular clusters are among the first stars to form in the universe, but the globular cluster NGC 6352 seems abnormally young in comparison.10 min
- Object 52: The 10 Year Long DiscoveryIt took 10 years of observations for astronomers to determine that the star HD 154345 had a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting it.11 min
- Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma RaysWhile the gamma ray burst GRB 090926A itself might be interesting to some astronomers (particularly desperate gamma ray astronomers), the interstellar gas between the burst and Earth may be even more interesting.10 min
- Object 50: It's Blue but not BlueberryIC 10 is a nearby starburst, a type of galaxy that is forming stars at a very high rate (for its size) that should not be confused with the fruit flavored candy.12 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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