George's Random Astronomical Object

George Bendo
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George's Random Astronomical Object

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.

  1. FEB 3

    Almost Absolutely Awesome

    GJ 887 is a very close red dwarf with two exoplanets (and a potential third) that almost look like they could harbor life except for one potential problem.

    11 min

  2. JAN 20

    The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found

    The awkwardly-named Segue 2 is (as of the time of the publication of this episode) the smallest galaxy anyone has ever found.

    11 min

  3. JAN 6

    Just a Very Nice Spiral

    Messier 74 is just a very nice looking face-on spiral galaxy, which has made it quite useful for many different types of astrophysical analyses.

    13 min

  4. 12/23/2024

    Imagine All the Dust

    Infrared observations of SN 1995N indicate that the material ejected by the explosion may have produced a huge amount of dust.

    10 min

  5. 12/09/2024

    Recoil

    The galaxy 3C 186 features a supermassive black hole with a mass several billions of times the mass of the Sun that has been ejected 36000 light years out of the galaxy's nucleus.

    8 min

  6. 11/25/2024

    A Weird Example of a Weird Subclass of a Weird Class of Objects

    4U 1850-087 is an ultracompact binary star system consisting of a whtie dwarf and a neutron star orbiting each other so closely that the neutron star can strip the outer layers off of the white dwarf.

    9 min

  7. 11/11/2024

    The Bedtime Story of the Black Hole that was Too Large for its Galaxy

    The elliptical galaxy NGC 4291 contains a supermassive black hole that is unusually massive in comparison to the rest of the galaxy.

    8 min

  8. 10/28/2024

    Barium

    HD 11397 is one of very few Sun-like stars that might seem ordinary but actually contain abnormally large amounts of heavy elements, most notably barium, that they could not have formed themselves.

    11 min
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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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