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George's Random Astronomical Object episodes
- Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIIIAbell 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.10 min
- Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the FunMarkarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes.12 min
- Object 97: A Runaway CowMu Columbae is a bright, blue star that was ejected from the Orion Nebula in a complex gravitational interaction involving three other stars.12 min
- Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept ExoplanetWASP-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.12 min
- Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological RelicsThe cluster Abell 168 formed from the merger of two smaller clusters, and this had many weird effects on the intracluster gas between the galaxies.9 min
- Object 94: So Hot and So SmallWD 2211-495 is a small, hot white dwarf with a rather unusual amount of heavy elements in its outer atmosphere, implying that something from a surrounding planetary system occasionally falls into the star.9 min
- Object 93: SuperthinUGC 7321 is an unusually flat (or superthin) spiral galaxy, which is indicative of how it has avoided gravitational interactions with other galaxies that could alter its shape.10 min
- Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy InsteadThe elliptical galaxy contains an abnormal amount of interstellar dust with no accompanying interstellar gas, which is weird.12 min
- Object 91: The Second Air Pump GalaxyAntlia 2, which was recently found orbiting the Milky Way, is the most diffuse galaxy that anyone has ever discovered up to this point in time.12 min
- Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest FireUKS 1 probably lies on the far side of the Milky Way, and the light from the cluster is heavily obscured by interstellar dust, but even though it's hard to see, astronomers are still really interested in it.10 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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