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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 discus... more
FAQs about George's Random Astronomical Object:How many episodes does George's Random Astronomical Object have?The podcast currently has 178 episodes available.
May 15, 2023Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the FunMarkarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes....more12minPlay
May 01, 2023Object 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....more12minPlay
April 17, 2023Object 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....more12minPlay
April 03, 2023Object 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....more9minPlay
March 20, 2023Object 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....more9minPlay
March 07, 2023Object 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....more10minPlay
February 20, 2023Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy InsteadThe elliptical galaxy contains an abnormal amount of interstellar dust with no accompanying interstellar gas, which is weird....more12minPlay
February 06, 2023Object 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....more12minPlay
January 23, 2023Object 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....more10minPlay
January 09, 2023Object 89: Relationship Status - It's ComplicatedR Aquarii could be described as one of the closest symbiotic binary star systems to Earth, but it's more complicated than that....more9minPlay
FAQs about George's Random Astronomical Object:How many episodes does George's Random Astronomical Object have?The podcast currently has 178 episodes available.