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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August 21, 2023 Object 105: Super-Slow Star Formation
Located at the edge of the Local Group, the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy has some of the stars with the fewest elements other than hydrogen or helium in the known universe.
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12min
August 07, 2023 Object 104: Going Cross Country for a Supermassive Black Hole
Observations with a telescope as large as the Untied States were needed to prove that J16021+3326 is a blazar, a type of galaxy containing a supermassive black hole.
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10min
July 24, 2023 Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand
PSR B1509-58 is a relatively young pulsar that sits within a supernova remnant that looks like a giant hand.
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9min
July 10, 2023 Object 102: Another Ring Thing
The spiral galaxy NGC 7552 is best known for its relatively small but bright starburst ring.
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8min
June 26, 2023 Object 101: Warm and Cold
The star Eta Corvi is surrounded by a disk of dust with a rather complex structure and rather complex origin.
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12min
June 12, 2023 Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula
The Taurus Molecular Cloud is exactly what it sounds like it is, a cloud made of mulecular gas (mostly molecular hydrogen) in the constellation Taurus, but it is also much more than that.
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14min
May 27, 2023 Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII
Abell 514 is a cluster of galaxies that contains six radio galaxies, and the polarized radio emission from those six radio galaxies can be used to probe the magnetic fields within the cluster.
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10min
May 15, 2023 Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun
Markarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes.
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12min
May 01, 2023 Object 97: A Runaway Cow
Mu Columbae is a bright, blue star that was ejected from the Orion Nebula in a complex gravitational interaction involving three other stars.
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12min
April 17, 2023 Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet
WASP-1 was the first star identified as having an exoplanet by the Wide Angle Search for Planets and thus helped to validate the techniques used by that survey.
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12min

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