George's Random Astronomical Object

Episode List

2019

Object 1: Not the Pope
Leo IV Dwarf Galaxy
12 Aug 2019
08:46
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Object 2: Variable Variability
HS Hydrae
26 Aug 2019
09:00
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Object 3: Room Temperature
HD 85512
09 Sep 2019
08:19
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Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant
LBQS 0058+0155
23 Sep 2019
13:35
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Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium
RV Octantis
07 Oct 2019
10:31
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Object 6: Extra Peculiar
HD 98851
21 Oct 2019
08:15
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Object 7: Circles within Circles
30 Arietis
04 Nov 2019
11:23
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Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG
II Zw 96
18 Nov 2019
10:58
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Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star
HD 214714
02 Dec 2019
09:34
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Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish
Abell 85
16 Dec 2019
11:28
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Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation
Psi Capricorni
30 Dec 2019
09:06
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2020

Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry
ELAIS N1
13 Jan 2020
11:00
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Object 13: Stellar Companion Facial Reconstruction
BV Centauri
27 Jan 2020
07:55
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Object 14: Exoplanetary Acronym 103b
WASP-103
10 Feb 2020
10:18
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Object 15: Calibrated Variability
J0510+1800
24 Feb 2020
13:36
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Object 16: Playing Golf on the Moon
J1955+5131
09 Mar 2020
13:55
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Object 17: Confusing U
4U 1957+115
23 Mar 2020
09:22
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Object 18: 0.2 Seconds of Gamma Rays
GRB 100206A
06 Apr 2020
07:34
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Object 19: Probably Not the Y2K Bug
V505 Sagittarii
20 Apr 2020
09:33
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Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet
Messier 23
04 May 20
10:39
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Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation
NGC 281
18 May 2020
09:43
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Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That
NGC 55
01 Jun 2020
14:59
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Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus
NGC 5102
15 Jun 2020
10:00
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Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too Furious
PSR 0820+02
29 Jun 2020
09:27
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Object 25: The Ultracool Neighbor
DENIS J104814.7-395606
13 Jul 2020
09:35
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Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees Celsius
IC 1860 Group
27 Jul 2020
09:31
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Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket Launcher
WR 40
10 Aug 2020
11:52
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Object 28: Stellar Assassination
PGC 43234
24 Aug 2020
09:09
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Object 29: High Contrast
Zeta Virginis
07 Sep 2020
09:37
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Object 30: Measure the Correct Distance and Win a Prize
NGC 3621
21 Sep 2020
13:13
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Object 31: Jelly Bean Analysis
GJ 3470
05 Oct 2020
10:10
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Object 32: Synonyms for Large
NGC 6251
19 Oct 2020
09:30
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Object 33: Part of a Vegetarian Sausage
Messier 56
02 Nov 2020
12:12
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Object 34: Longer Than This Podcast Episode
GRB 111209A
16 Nov 2020
09:55
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Object 35: The Ursa Major Eye Test
Mizar and Alcor
30 Nov 2020
14:20
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Object 36: Seventeen Ways to Oscillate
HD 60435
14 Dec 2020
11:17
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Object 37: Blowing Bubbles (or Cavities)
Hickson Compact Group 62
28 Dec 2020
09:46
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2021

Object 38: The Clickbait Star
HD 220140
11 Jan 2021
09:07
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Object 39: Sort of Faster than the Speed of Light
1642+690
25 Jan 2021
08:35
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Object 40: Sugar Formation
IRAS 16293-2422
08 Feb 2021
09:51
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Object 41: Bobbins
BoBn 1
22 Feb 2021
10:29
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Object 42: The Inside Joke Galaxy
NGC 891
08 Mar 2021
11:52
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Object 43: Does It Dark Matter?
NGC 1052-DF2
22 Mar 2021
10:07
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Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery
WD 0806-661B
05 Apr 2021
09:22
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Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again
Mrk 590
19 Apr 2021
08:17
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Object 46: Stability within a Cataclysm
LX Serpentis
03 May 2021
09:16
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Object 47: BYOB
NGC 3504
17 May 2021
09:15
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Object 48: It's Too Obvious To Say It's Complex
S254-258 Complex
31 May 2021
09:50
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Object 49: Big in the South
Abell S1063
14 Jun 2021
08:51
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Object 50: It's Blue but not Blueberry
IC 10
28 Jun 2021
11:52
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Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma Rays
GRB 090926A
12 Jul 2021
09:28
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Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery
HD 154345
26 Jul 2021
10:36
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Object 53: Fortified with Iron
NGC 6352
09 Aug 2021
09:23
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Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home
MWC 137
23 Aug 2021
10:42
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Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the Playground
WLM Galaxy
06 Sep 2021
09:57
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Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet
HD 191089
20 Sep 2021
09:52
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Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei
3C 147
04 Oct 2021
12:45
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Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here
Chi Cygni
18 Oct 2021
10:26
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Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV Cephei
VW Cephei
01 Nov 2021
07:41
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Object 60: Conclusively Inconclusive
UM 425
15 Nov 2021
09:23
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Object 61: Greater Than One
SPT-CL J0546-5345
29 Nov 2021
13:24
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Object 62: Imaged Before the Hubble Space Telescope Was Fixed
NGC 7457
13 Dec 2021
08:43
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Object 63: A Rant About Variable Star Classifications
UX Ari
27 Dec 2021
09:49
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2022

Object 64: An Actual Use for Einstein's Famous Equation
VER J0521+211
10 Jan 2022
11:44
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Object 65: The Infrared Twin
HD 106252
24 Jan 2022
10:30
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Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B
b Centauri
07 Feb 2022
14:38
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Object 67: The Weird Sphere
Messier 71
21 Feb 2022
12:37
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Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks
NGC 6814
07 Mar 2022
09:52
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Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids
North Ecliptic Pole
21 Mar 2022
11:15
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Object 70: The Uncredited Star
Eta Aquilae
04 Apr 2022
08:36
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Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee
Messier 61
18 Apr 2022
09:07
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Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis
GX Monocerotis
02 May 2022
08:43
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Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge
IRAS 10214+4724
16 May 2022
14:04
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Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo
Canopus
30 May 2022
12:33
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Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster
NGC 3680
13 Jun 2022
09:31
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Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet
Sakurai's Object
27 Jun 2022
08:43
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Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray Flashback
GRB 980326
11 Jul 2022
10:30
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Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for Everyone
IC 1613
25 Jul 2022
12:03
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Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar Semantics
HD 131835
08 Aug 2022
11:39
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Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode
WR 124 and M1-67
22 Aug 2022
10:47
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Object 81: Unusually Shocking
PSR J2124-3358
05 Sep 2022
09:50
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Object 82: Officially Peculiar
NGC 3593
19 Sep 2022
09:17
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Last update: 19 September 2022