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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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Check latest episodes from George's Random Astronomical Object podcast

A Very Good Looking Scientific Footnote

2026/02/02

While not many professional astronomers have spent much time looking at the open cluster Messier 103, it is still a spectacular object to see in an amateur astronomy telescope.

Controversial Radiowaves

2026/01/19

Astronomers have been studying the radiowave emission from the cluster of galaxies Abell 4038 quite intently and have provided both conventional and unconventional explanations for its origin.

An Overlooked Cluster

2026/01/05

The southern open cluster IC 2602, also known as the Theta Carinae Cluster or the Southern Pleiades, may not be as famous as some open clusters visible from the Northern Hemisphere, but it is still a good place for professional astronomers to study young stars, and it's also a good amateur astronomy target.

A Hole in the Clouds

2025/12/22

Baade's Window is an unusual hole through the interstellar dust in the Milky Way's disk through which astronomers can very clearly see the stars near the center of our galaxy.

Not Just Any Quasar But The Quasar

2025/12/08

Markarian 231 is now widely recognized not only as the closest quasar to Earth but also as a very bright ultraluminous infrared galaxy.

Ludricous Rotation

2025/11/24

The pulsar PSR J1022+1001 is one of a small subclass of pulsars named millisecond pulsars because they rotate one every few milliseconds.

Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic Coin

2025/11/10

The lenticular galaxy NGC 1172 contains two different populations of globular clusters, which indicates something about the history of the galaxy.

More Subclassifications

2025/10/27

Dy Pegasi is an SX Phoenicis type variable star, and SX Phoenicis type variable stars are a subset of Delta Scuti type variable stars, and this episode explains why that is confusing but what it also actually means.

A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard Font

2025/10/13

The spiral galaxy NGC 3718 has an unusually weird spiral shape, which belies its unusual history.

That One Very Famous Double Star

2025/09/29

While amateur astronomers know that Albireo is a very spectacular-looking double star, professional astronomers are more interested in the dynamical complexities of Albireo's two star systems.

Dark Burst

2025/09/15

The gamma ray burst GRB 020819 took place in a galaxy containing so much light-obscuring interstellar dust that people initially misidentified which galaxy contained the burst.

Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets

2025/09/01

The nearby Sun-like star HD 69830 may have three exoplanets orbiting it, but astronomers seem more focused on trying to understand a hard-to-explain dust disk in the star system.

Dust Puffs

2025/08/18

Z Ursa Minor belongs to a class of variable stars that occasionally produce puffs of dust, but this is not the weeirdest thing about them.

Pinwheel

2025/08/04

The nearby face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 is one of the most popular galaxies in the sky for astronomers to study, particularly in terms of studying the relative abundances of various elements within the galaxy.

The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on Hiatus

2025/07/21

A 0535+26 is a rather unusual star system called a Be high mass X-ray binary that periodically produces bursts of X-ray emission.

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T.K. Arispe 2025/02/22

A delightfully different sort of astronomy podcast

I’m a big fan of the Jodcast, so I was excited to see that one of the presenters started his own podcast that takes things in a different - but still ...

Jdw alaska 2020/01/13

JDW

I like it. Quick and interesting

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