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:

January 13, 2020 Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry
ELAIS N1 is a extragalactic deep field selected specifically for identifying many distant, faint galaxies at infrared wavelengths.
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11min
December 30, 2019 Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation
Psi Capricorni was the first star other than the Sun where the phenomenon of differental rotation was ever measured.
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10min
December 16, 2019 Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish
Abell 85 is a large, nearby cluster of galaxies with so many things happening inside that it could be called a ball of chaos.
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12min
December 02, 2019 Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star
The star HD 214714 contains not only a large amount of carbon in its stellar atmosphere but also a peculiar combination of other heavy elements as well.
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10min
November 18, 2019 Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG
II Zw 96 is a luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) where most of the infrared emission comes from some type of off-center region, which is weird compared to most other LIRGs.
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11min
November 04, 2019 Object 7: Circles within Circles
30 Ari contains four stars and an exoplanet all arranged in a rather complex set of nested orbits.
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12min
October 21, 2019 Object 6: Extra Peculiar
HD 98851 is both an Am chemically peculiar star and a delta Scuti variable star, and it has two different pulsation cycles, which makes it really peculiar.
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9min
October 07, 2019 Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium
RV Octantis would be considered a run-of-the-mill RR Lyrae variable star if it wasn't for the unexpected discovery of helium in its atmosphere.
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11min
September 23, 2019 Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant
The most interesting thing about the quasar LBSQ 0058+0155 is not the quasar itself but the galaxy between the quasar and Earth.
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14min
September 09, 2019 Object 3: Room Temperature
HD 85512 is a nearby star slightly smaller and more orange than the Sun. It happens to have an exoplanet that could be close to Earth-like.
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9min

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