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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September 07, 2020 Object 29: High Contrast
A 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.
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10min
August 24, 2020 Object 28: Stellar Assassination
PGC 43234 was a relatively uninteresting galaxy until its central supermassive black hole shredded a star in an event known as ASASSN-14li.
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10min
August 10, 2020 Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket Launcher
WR 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.
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12min
July 27, 2020 Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees Celsius
The group of galaxies called the IC 1860 Group looks like it was recently disturbed by a spiral galaxy falling into it.
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10min
July 13, 2020 Object 25: The Ultracool Neighbor
The 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).
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10min
June 29, 2020 Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too Furious
PSR 0820+02 is the second pulsar ever discovered to be in a binary star system.
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10min
June 15, 2020 Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus
A number of peculiarities about the lenticular galaxy NGC 5102 indicate that a dwarf galaxy fell into it several hundred million years ago.
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10min
June 01, 2020 Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That
NGC 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.
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15min
May 18, 2020 Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation
NGC 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.
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10min
May 04, 2020 Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet
Even though it may be rather ordinary from a scientific standpoint, the open cluster Messier 23 is a very popular with amateur astronomers.
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11min

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