George's Random Astronomical Object
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 20 parsecs, jellyfish galaxies, diffuse ionized gas, and general overall weirdness.Podcasts
Object 111: The 1925 Classic
Published: Nov. 13, 2023, noonDuration: 7 minutes 23 seconds
Listed in: Science
Object 110: We Came, We Saw, We Measured
Published: Oct. 30, 2023, noonDuration: 10 minutes 1 second
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Object 109: A Water World without Kevin Costner
Published: Oct. 16, 2023, noonDuration: 12 minutes 14 seconds
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Object 108: Objects in the Mirror May Be More Complicated Than They Appear
Published: Oct. 2, 2023, noonDuration: 10 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 107: The Red Rectangle
Published: Sept. 18, 2023, noonDuration: 10 minutes 57 seconds
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Object 106: A Tale of Two Binary Star Systems
Published: Sept. 4, 2023, noonDuration: 12 minutes 9 seconds
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Object 105: Super-Slow Star Formation
Published: Aug. 21, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
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Object 104: Going Cross Country for a Supermassive Black Hole
Published: Aug. 7, 2023, noonDuration: 9 minutes 15 seconds
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Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand
Published: July 24, 2023, noonDuration: 8 minutes 35 seconds
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Object 102: Another Ring Thing
Published: July 10, 2023, noonDuration: 7 minutes 14 seconds
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Object 101: Warm and Cold
Published: June 26, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 48 seconds
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Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula
Published: June 12, 2023, noonDuration: 13 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII
Published: May 27, 2023, noonDuration: 9 minutes 41 seconds
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Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun
Published: May 15, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 50 seconds
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Object 97: A Runaway Cow
Published: May 1, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 24 seconds
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Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet
Published: April 17, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 29 seconds
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Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological Relics
Published: April 3, 2023, noonDuration: 8 minutes 6 seconds
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Object 94: So Hot and So Small
Published: March 20, 2023, noonDuration: 8 minutes 22 seconds
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Object 93: Superthin
Published: March 7, 2023, noonDuration: 9 minutes 5 seconds
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Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy Instead
Published: Feb. 20, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 91: The Second Air Pump Galaxy
Published: Feb. 6, 2023, noonDuration: 11 minutes 26 seconds
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Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest Fire
Published: Jan. 23, 2023, noonDuration: 9 minutes 17 seconds
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Object 89: Relationship Status - It's Complicated
Published: Jan. 9, 2023, noonDuration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Object 88: Some Sort of Weird, Ultraviolet Freak of Nature
Published: Dec. 26, 2022, noonDuration: 11 minutes 30 seconds
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Object 87: The Fake Sphere
Published: Nov. 28, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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Object 86: Two Hellscapes Orbiting a Red Dwarf
Published: Nov. 14, 2022, noonDuration: 12 minutes 44 seconds
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Object 85: The Swedish Stellar Superstore
Published: Oct. 31, 2022, noonDuration: 12 minutes 5 seconds
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Object 84: Eccentricity
Published: Oct. 17, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 8 seconds
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Object 83: Number 1 in 1970
Published: Oct. 3, 2022, noonDuration: 13 minutes 58 seconds
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Object 82: Officially Peculiar
Published: Sept. 19, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 17 seconds
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Object 81: Unusually Shocking
Published: Sept. 5, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
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Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode
Published: Aug. 22, 2022, noonDuration: 10 minutes 47 seconds
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Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar Semantics
Published: Aug. 8, 2022, noonDuration: 11 minutes 39 seconds
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Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for Everyone
Published: July 25, 2022, noonDuration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray Flashback
Published: July 11, 2022, noonDuration: 10 minutes 30 seconds
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Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet
Published: June 27, 2022, noonDuration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster
Published: June 13, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo
Published: May 30, 2022, noonDuration: 12 minutes 33 seconds
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Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge
Published: May 16, 2022, noonDuration: 14 minutes 4 seconds
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Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis
Published: May 2, 2022, noonDuration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee
Published: April 18, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 7 seconds
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Object 70: The Uncredited Star
Published: April 4, 2022, noonDuration: 8 minutes 36 seconds
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Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids
Published: March 21, 2022, noonDuration: 11 minutes 15 seconds
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Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks
Published: March 7, 2022, noonDuration: 9 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 67: The Weird Sphere
Published: Feb. 21, 2022, noonDuration: 12 minutes 37 seconds
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Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B
Published: Feb. 7, 2022, noonDuration: 14 minutes 38 seconds
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Object 65: The Infrared Twin
Published: Jan. 24, 2022, noonDuration: 10 minutes 30 seconds
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Object 64: An Actual Use for Einstein's Famous Equation
Published: Jan. 10, 2022, noonDuration: 11 minutes 44 seconds
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Object 63: A Rant About Variable Star Classifications
Published: Dec. 27, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 49 seconds
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Object 62: Imaged Before the Hubble Space Telescope Was Fixed
Published: Dec. 13, 2021, noonDuration: 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 61: Greater Than One
Published: Nov. 29, 2021, noonDuration: 13 minutes 24 seconds
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Object 60: Conclusively Inconclusive
Published: Nov. 15, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
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Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV Cephei
Published: Nov. 1, 2021, noonDuration: 7 minutes 41 seconds
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Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here
Published: Oct. 18, 2021, noonDuration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
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Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei
Published: Oct. 4, 2021, noonDuration: 12 minutes 45 seconds
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Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet
Published: Sept. 20, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the Playground
Published: Sept. 6, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
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Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home
Published: Aug. 23, 2021, noonDuration: 10 minutes 42 seconds
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Object 53: Fortified with Iron
Published: Aug. 9, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 23 seconds
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Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery
Published: July 26, 2021, noonDuration: 10 minutes 36 seconds
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Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma Rays
Published: July 12, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 28 seconds
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Object 50: It's Blue but not Blueberry
Published: June 28, 2021, noonDuration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 49: Big in the South
Published: June 14, 2021, noonDuration: 8 minutes 51 seconds
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Object 48: It's Too Obvious To Say It's Complex
Published: May 31, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 50 seconds
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Object 46: Stability within a Cataclysm
Published: May 3, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 16 seconds
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Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again
Published: April 19, 2021, noonDuration: 8 minutes 17 seconds
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Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery
Published: April 5, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 22 seconds
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Object 43: Does It Dark Matter?
Published: March 22, 2021, noonDuration: 10 minutes 7 seconds
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Object 42: The Inside Joke Galaxy
Published: March 8, 2021, noonDuration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 41: Bobbins
Published: Feb. 22, 2021, noonDuration: 10 minutes 29 seconds
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Object 40: Sugar Formation
Published: Feb. 8, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 51 seconds
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Object 39: Sort of Faster than the Speed of Light
Published: Jan. 25, 2021, noonDuration: 8 minutes 35 seconds
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Object 38: The Clickbait Star
Published: Jan. 11, 2021, noonDuration: 9 minutes 7 seconds
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Object 37: Blowing Bubbles (or Cavities)
Published: Dec. 28, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 46 seconds
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Object 36: Seventeen Ways to Oscillate
Published: Dec. 14, 2020, noonDuration: 11 minutes 17 seconds
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Object 35: The Ursa Major Eye Test
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, noonDuration: 14 minutes 20 seconds
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Object 34: Longer Than This Podcast Episode
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
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Object 33: Part of a Vegetarian Sausage
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, noonDuration: 12 minutes 12 seconds
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Object 32: Synonyms for Large
Published: Oct. 19, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
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Object 31: Jelly Bean Analysis
Published: Oct. 5, 2020, noonDuration: 10 minutes 10 seconds
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Object 30: Measure the Correct Distance and Win a Prize
Published: Sept. 21, 2020, noonDuration: 13 minutes 13 seconds
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Object 29: High Contrast
Published: Sept. 7, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 37 seconds
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Object 28: Stellar Assassination
Published: Aug. 24, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 9 seconds
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Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket Launcher
Published: Aug. 10, 2020, noonDuration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
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Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees Celsius
Published: July 27, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 31 seconds
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Object 25: The Ultracool Neighbor
Published: July 13, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 35 seconds
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Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too Furious
Published: June 29, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 27 seconds
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Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus
Published: June 15, 2020, noonDuration: 10 minutes
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Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That
Published: June 1, 2020, noonDuration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
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Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation
Published: May 18, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet
Published: May 4, 2020, noonDuration: 10 minutes 39 seconds
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Object 19: Probably Not the Y2K Bug
Published: April 20, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 33 seconds
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Object 18: 0.2 Seconds of Gamma Rays
Published: April 6, 2020, noonDuration: 7 minutes 34 seconds
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Object 17: Confusing U
Published: March 23, 2020, noonDuration: 9 minutes 22 seconds
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Object 16: Playing Golf on the Moon
Published: March 9, 2020, noonDuration: 13 minutes 55 seconds
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Object 15: Calibrated Variability
Published: Feb. 24, 2020, noonDuration: 13 minutes 36 seconds
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Object 14: Exoplanetary Acronym 103b
Published: Feb. 10, 2020, noonDuration: 10 minutes 18 seconds
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Object 13: Stellar Companion Facial Reconstruction
Published: Jan. 27, 2020, noonDuration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
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Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry
Published: Jan. 13, 2020, noonDuration: 11 minutes
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Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation
Published: Dec. 30, 2019, noonDuration: 9 minutes 6 seconds
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Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish
Published: Dec. 16, 2019, noonDuration: 11 minutes 28 seconds
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Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star
Published: Dec. 2, 2019, noonDuration: 9 minutes 34 seconds
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Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG
Published: Nov. 18, 2019, noonDuration: 10 minutes 58 seconds
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Object 7: Circles within Circles
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, noonDuration: 11 minutes 23 seconds
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Object 6: Extra Peculiar
Published: Oct. 21, 2019, noonDuration: 8 minutes 15 seconds
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Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, noonDuration: 10 minutes 31 seconds
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Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant
Published: Sept. 23, 2019, noonDuration: 13 minutes 35 seconds
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Object 3: Room Temperature
Published: Sept. 9, 2019, noonDuration: 8 minutes 19 seconds
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Object 2: Variable Variability
Published: Aug. 26, 2019, noonDuration: 9 minutes
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Object 1: Not the Pope
Published: Aug. 12, 2019, noonDuration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
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