Episode List

2019

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

2020

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

2021

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

2022

Episode Title
Object
Date
Length
Object 64: An Actual Use for Einstein's Famous Equation
VER J0521+211
10 Jan 2022
11:44
Object 65: The Infrared Twin
HD 106252
24 Jan 2022
10:30
Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B
b Centauri
07 Feb 2022
14:38
Object 67: The Weird Sphere
Messier 71
21 Feb 2022
12:37
Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks
NGC 6814
07 Mar 2022
09:52
Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids
North Ecliptic Pole
21 Mar 2022
11:15
Object 70: The Uncredited Star
Eta Aquilae
04 Apr 2022
08:36
Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee
Messier 61
18 Apr 2022
09:07
Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis
GX Monocerotis
02 May 2022
08:43
Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge
IRAS 10214+4724
16 May 2022
14:04
Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo
Canopus
30 May 2022
12:33
Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster
NGC 3680
13 Jun 2022
09:31
Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet
Sakurai's Object
27 Jun 2022
08:43
Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray Flashback
GRB 980326
11 Jul 2022
10:30
Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for Everyone
IC 1613
25 Jul 2022
12:03
Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar Semantics
HD 131835
08 Aug 2022
11:39
Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode
WR 124 and M1-67
22 Aug 2022
10:47
Object 81: Unusually Shocking
PSR J2124-3358
05 Sep 2022
09:50
Object 82: Officially Peculiar
NGC 3593
19 Sep 2022
09:17
Object 83: Number 1 in 1970
4C 05.34
03 Oct 2022
13:58
Object 84: Eccentricity
HD 214362
17 Oct 2022
09:08
Object 85: The Swedish Stellar Superstore
Westerlund 1
31 Oct 2022
12:05
Object 86: Two Hellscapes Orbiting a Red Dwarf
HD 260655
14 Nov 2022
12:44
Object 87: The Fake Sphere
NGC 6781
28 Nov 2022
09:31
Object 88: Some Sort of Weird, Ultraviolet Freak of Nature
NGC 6052
26 Dec 2022
11:30

2023

Episode Title
Object
Date
Length
Object 89: Relationship Status - It's Complicated
R Aquarii
09 Jan 2023
08:57
Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest Fire
UKS 1
23 Jan 2023
09:17
Object 91: The Second Air Pump Galaxy
Antlia 2
06 Feb 2023
11:26
Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy Instead
NGC 4125
20 Feb 2023
11:43
Object 93: Superthin
UGC 7321
07 Mar 2023
09:05
Object 94: So Hot and So Small
WD 2211-495
20 Mar 2023
08:22
Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological Relics
Abell 168
03 Apr 2023
08:06
Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet
WASP 1
17 Apr 2023
11:29
Object 97: A Runaway Cow
Mu Colombae
01 May 2023
11:24
Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun
Markarian 266
15 May 2023
11:50
Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII
Abell 514
27 May 2023
09:41
Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula
Taurus Molecular Cloud
12 Jun 2023
13:52
Object 101: Warm and Cold
Eta Corvi
26 Jun 2023
11:48
Object 102: Another Ring Thing
NGC 7552
10 Jul 2023
07:14
Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand
PSR B1509-58
24 Jul 2023
08:35
Object 104: Going Cross Country for a Supermassive Black Hole
J16021+3326
07 Aug 2023
09:15
Object 105: Super-Slow Star Formation
Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy
21 Aug 2023
11:21
Object 106: A Tale of Two Binary Star Systems
NGC 6712
04 Sep 2023
12:09
Object 107: The Red Rectangle
Red Rectangle
18 Sep 2023
10:57
Object 108: Objects in the Mirror May Be More Complicated Than They Appear
PDS 70
02 Oct 2023
10:43
Object 109: A Water World without Kevin Costner
Kepler-138
16 Oct 2023
12:14
Object 110: We Came, We Saw, We Measured
Mrk 766
30 Oct 2023
10:01
Object 111: The 1925 Classic
RR Pictoris
13 Nov 2023
07:23
Object 112: Imagine Marilyn Monroe in a Movie Named the Great Attractor
Norma Cluster
27 Nov 2023
09:37
Object 113: The Mystery Spot
GD 394
11 Dec 2023
08:10
Object 114: George's 2020 Data Processing Project from Hell
Messier 33
25 Dec 2023
15:51

2024

Episode Title
Object
Date
Length
Object 115: Oyster?
NGC 1501
08 Jan 2024
09:35
Object 116: The Really Really High Expectations Exoplanetary System
47 UMa
22 Jan 2024
08:40
Object 117: No Shockingly Dumb Jokes in This Episode
Kappa Cassiopeiae
05 Feb 2024
06:38
Object 118: The Golden Standard
SN 2005cf
19 Feb 2024
10:50
Object 119: Alpha Table
Alpha Mensae
04 Mar 2024
08:49
Object 120: A Possible Source of the Cosmic Rays that Gave the Fantastic Four Their Superpowers
Monogem Ring and PSR B0656+14
18 Mar 2024
11:14
Object 121: Can You Find the Supermassive Black Hole?
NGC 34
01 Apr 2024
08:53
Object 122: Wait For It...
MACS J1149.5+2223
15 Apr 2024
12:57
Object 123: More Dampness
QSO 1331+170
29 Apr 2024
11:09
Object 124: 6 > 2
Castor
13 May 2024
11:16
Object 125: The Business Form Variable Star System
HR 1099
27 May 2024
07:39
Object 126: Do Not Mention Exoplanet b Again
HD 181433
10 Jun 2024
10:10
Object 127: The Nebraska Blue Straggler Special
NGC 188
24 Jun 2024
12:59
Object 128: The Dwarf Living Inside the Bridge
NGC 6221/NGC 6215 Galaxy Group
08 Jul 2024
06:58
Object 129: Rinky-Dink
Pyxis Cluster
22 Jul 2024
09:15
Object 130: Putting It All Together
NGC 4261
05 Aug 2024
07:46
Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors
Hydrus I
19 Aug 2024
09:45
Object 132: I Need a 2002 Pop Culture Reference
PMN J0134-0931
02 Sep 2024
11:21
Object 133: Strong Arm Tactics
NGC 3110
16 Sep 2024
09:45
Object 134: Not Dead Yet
NGC 7094
30 Sep 2024
07:24
Object 135: Feedback Time
NGC 3801
14 Oct 2024
09:01
Object 136: Barium
HD 11397
28 Oct 2024
10:43
Object 137: The Bedtime Story of the Black Hole that was Too Large for its Galaxy
NGC 4291
11 Nov 2024
08:17
Object 138: A Weird Example of a Weird Subclass of a Weird Class of Objects
4U 1850-087
25 Nov 2024
08:40
Object 139: Recoil
3C 186
09 Dec 2024
08:16
Object 140: Imagine All the Dust
SN 1995N
23 Dec 2024
09:44

2025

Episode Title
Object
Date
Length
Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral
Messier 74
06 Jan 2025
12:32
Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found
Segue 2
20 Jan 2025
10:31
Object 143: Almost Absolutely Awesome
GJ 887
03 Feb 2025
10:52
Object 144: Heavy Metals
NGC 6253
17 Feb 2025
08:05
Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time
PSR J1518+4904
03 Mar 2025
10:56
Object 146: The Prototype of Peculiar
SN 2002cx
17 Mar 2025
08:05
Object 147: Nothing But Gas
Abell 1142
31 Mar 2025
08:21
Object 148: Problem Solving
DI Peg
14 Apr 2025
08:01
Object 149: Spaghetti Leftovers
Messier 54
28 Apr 2025
09:42
Object 150: And Now for Something Completely the Same
Wolf 1069
26 May 2025
09:50
Object 151: A Magnetic Whale
Beta Ceti
09 Jun 2025
07:11
Object 152: The Spiderweb Flashlight
PKS 2126-158
23 Jun 2025
08:39
Last update: 22 June 2025
© George Bendo 2019-2025
Acknowledgments