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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

Ear of Wheat

2026/07/20

Spica in the constellation Virgo is a well-studied binary star system that also ionizes the interstellar gas that surrounds it.

As Flat as the Argentinian Pampas

2026/06/22

The Fourcade-Figueroa Galaxy is another example of a very flat disk galaxy seen edge-on from Earth, but that's not the only thing that makes this galaxy unusual.

Low

2026/06/08

The gravitationally lensed quasar SBS 1520+530 has been used in a unique way to measure the Hubble constant, but the derived value is rather low.

The Star Hidden Behind the Interstellar Equivalent of Complicated Tax Forms

2026/05/25

HD 210121 is a fairly ordinary blue star located behind a relatively thick cloud of interstellar gas and dust, providing astronomers with a unique opportinity to study that dust.

Counterintuitive Supernova Explosions

2026/05/11

The Cepheus Flare is a nearby regions where a series of supernova explosions have counterintuitively triggered the formation of stars.

Toy Exoplanets

2026/04/27

The red dwarf TOI-700 has at least four exoplanets orbiting it, and two of them are Earth-sized exoplanets lying within the star system's habitable zone.

The Hot Calibrator

2026/04/13

G191-B2B is a hot white dwarf with a layer of nearly pure oxygen that has been used as a flux calibration source for one particularly famous telescope.

Lego Minifigures with Masers

2026/03/30

VY Canis Majoris is not only much, much larger than the Sun but is also ejecting blobs of gas that are forming molecules and dust.

Guess Again

2026/03/16

3C 324 was once identified as a possible gravitational lens where one galaxy was bending the light from a galaxy behind it, but it turned out to be something different.

Don't Forget the Feedback

2026/03/02

NGC 2639 may look like an ordinary spiral galaxy, but it contains an active galactic nucleus with jets of gas that have emerged from that nucleus in four different directions, which is, to use the technical term, quite weird.

No Longer a Suspect

2026/02/16

LGS 3 (also known as the Pisces Dwarf Galaxy) is a nearby but faint dwarf galaxy that has provided some interesting clues as to how stars formed in the early universe.

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.

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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 ...

AK JDW 2020/01/13

JDW

I like it. Quick and interesting

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