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George's Random Astronomical Object is a podcast that, unsurprisingly, discusses random astronomical objects. Every episode, I run a random number generator to select random coordinates in the sky in terms of right ascension and declination. I then search for an astronomical object near those coordinates using the SIMBAD Astronomical Database and then spend a few minutes talking about the object found there and what makes it scientifically important.

Since this podcast was launched, it has become the world's leading source for audio information on such astronomical objects as the ultracool dwarf star DENIS J104814.7-395606, the lenticular galaxy NGC 7457, and the binary star system LX Serpentis and its exoplanet. This is probably either because my astronomy podcast has a lot of subscribers or because no one else would think of creating podcasts about these objects in the first place.

See the episodes list for the individual podcast episodes that I have produced, each of which discusses a specific randomly-selected astronomical object. Each object's webpage includes the object coordinates, the constellation where the object is found, references, a link to Google Maps showing the corresponding location on the Earth's surface, and an image displayed using the Aladin image viewer.

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