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- Object 29: High ContrastA project using an interesting combination of methods was able to find a very faint red dwarf in orbit around the bright, nearby star Zeta Virginis.10 min
- Object 28: Stellar AssassinationPGC 43234 was a relatively uninteresting galaxy until its central supermassive black hole shredded a star in an event known as ASASSN-14li.10 min
- Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket LauncherWR 40 is one of the brightest and best-studied Wolf-Rayet stars, a class of stars that are so hot that they are blowing themselves apart.12 min
- Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees CelsiusThe group of galaxies called the IC 1860 Group looks like it was recently disturbed by a spiral galaxy falling into it.10 min
- Object 25: The Ultracool NeighborThe nearby star DENIS J104814.7-395606 is cool (in the sense that it is awesome) because it is so cool (in the sense that it has a very low surface temperature for a star).10 min
- Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too FuriousPSR 0820+02 is the second pulsar ever discovered to be in a binary star system.10 min
- Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from CentaurusA number of peculiarities about the lenticular galaxy NGC 5102 indicate that a dwarf galaxy fell into it several hundred million years ago.10 min
- Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like ThatNGC 55 has the interesting distinction of being the closest galaxy to Earth that is seen edge-on, and it also contains an ultraminous X-ray source (ULX) uncreatively named NGC 55 ULX.15 min
- Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star FormationNGC 281, which is also called the Pacman Nebula, is a place where star formation has been triggered two different ways, although the stars are not chased by any Ghost Nebulae.10 min
- Object 20: A Classic Non-CometEven though it may be rather ordinary from a scientific standpoint, the open cluster Messier 23 is a very popular with amateur astronomers.11 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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