99 episodes

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 20 parsecs, jellyfish galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, and general overall weirdness.

George's Random Astronomical Object George Bendo

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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 20 parsecs, jellyfish galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, and general overall weirdness.

    No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII

    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.

    • 9 min
    Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun

    Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun

    Markarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes.

    • 11 min
    A Runaway Cow

    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.

    • 11 min
    The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet

    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.

    • 11 min
    Two Non-Archaeological Relics

    Two Non-Archaeological Relics

    The cluster Abell 168 formed from the merger of two smaller clusters, and this had many weird effects on the intracluster gas between the galaxies.

    • 8 min
    So Hot and So Small

    So Hot and So Small

    WD 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.

    • 8 min

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