George's Random Astronomical Object
By George Bendo
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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.
| Episode | Date |
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Object 175: Counterintuitive Supernova Explosions
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May 11, 2026 |
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Object 174: Toy Exoplanets
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Object 173: The Hot Calibrator
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Object 172: Lego Minifigures with Masers
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Object 171: Guess Again
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Object 170: Don't Forget the Feedback
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Object 169: No Longer a Suspect
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Object 168: A Very Good Looking Scientific Footnote
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Object 167: Controversial Radiowaves
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Object 166: An Overlooked Cluster
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Object 165: A Hole in the Clouds
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Object 164: Not Just Any Quasar But The Quasar
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Object 163: Ludricous Rotation
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Object 162: Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic Coin
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Object 161: More Subclassifications
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Object 160: A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard Font
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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Object 158: Dark Burst
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Object 156: Dust Puffs
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Object 155: Pinwheel
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Aug 04, 2025 |
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Object 154: The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on Hiatus
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Object 153: A Wolf Within a Wolf
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Jul 07, 2025 |
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Object 152: The Spiderweb Flashlight
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Object 151: A Magnetic Whale
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Object 150: And Now for Something Completely the Same
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May 26, 2025 |
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Object 149: Spaghetti Leftovers
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Object 148: Problem Solving
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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Object 147: Nothing But Gas
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Object 146: The Prototype of Peculiar
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Object 144: Heavy Metals
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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Object 143: Almost Absolutely Awesome
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Object 140: Imagine All the Dust
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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Object 139: Recoil
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Object 138: A Weird Example of a Weird Subclass of a Weird Class of Objects
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Nov 25, 2024 |
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Object 137: The Bedtime Story of the Black Hole that was Too Large for its Galaxy
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Object 136: Barium
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Object 135: Feedback Time
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Object 134: Not Dead Yet
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Object 133: Strong Arm Tactics
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Object 132: I Need a 2002 Pop Culture Reference
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Sep 02, 2024 |
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Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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Object 130: Putting It All Together
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Aug 05, 2024 |
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Object 129: Rinky-Dink
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Jul 22, 2024 |
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Object 128: The Dwarf Living Inside the Bridge
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Object 127: The Nebraska Blue Straggler Special
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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Object 126: Do Not Mention Exoplanet b Again
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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Object 125: The Business Form Variable Star System
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May 27, 2024 |
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Object 124: 6 > 2
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May 13, 2024 |
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Object 123: More Dampness
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Object 122: Wait For It...
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Object 121: Can You Find the Supermassive Black Hole?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Object 120: A Possible Source of the Cosmic Rays that Gave the Fantastic Four Their Superpowers
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Object 119: Alpha Table
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Object 118: The Golden Standard
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Object 117: No Shockingly Dumb Jokes in This Episode
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Object 116: The Really Really High Expectations Exoplanetary System
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Object 115: Oyster?
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Object 114: George's 2020 Data Processing Project from Hell
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Object 113: The Mystery Spot
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Object 112: Imagine Marilyn Monroe in a Movie Named the Great Attractor
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Object 111: The 1925 Classic
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Object 110: We Came, We Saw, We Measured
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Object 109: A Water World without Kevin Costner
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Object 108: Objects in the Mirror May Be More Complicated Than They Appear
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Object 107: The Red Rectangle
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Object 106: A Tale of Two Binary Star Systems
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Object 105: Super-Slow Star Formation
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Object 104: Going Cross Country for a Supermassive Black Hole
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Object 102: Another Ring Thing
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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Object 101: Warm and Cold
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII
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May 27, 2023 |
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Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun
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May 15, 2023 |
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Object 97: A Runaway Cow
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May 01, 2023 |
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Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological Relics
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Object 94: So Hot and So Small
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Object 93: Superthin
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy Instead
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Object 91: The Second Air Pump Galaxy
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest Fire
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Object 89: Relationship Status - It's Complicated
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Object 88: Some Sort of Weird, Ultraviolet Freak of Nature
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Object 87: The Fake Sphere
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Object 86: Two Hellscapes Orbiting a Red Dwarf
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Object 85: The Swedish Stellar Superstore
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Object 84: Eccentricity
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Object 83: Number 1 in 1970
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Object 82: Officially Peculiar
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Object 81: Unusually Shocking
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar Semantics
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for Everyone
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray Flashback
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo
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May 30, 2022 |
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Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge
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May 16, 2022 |
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Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis
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May 02, 2022 |
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Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Object 70: The Uncredited Star
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Object 67: The Weird Sphere
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Object 65: The Infrared Twin
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Object 64: An Actual Use for Einstein's Famous Equation
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Object 63: A Rant About Variable Star Classifications
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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Object 62: Imaged Before the Hubble Space Telescope Was Fixed
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Object 61: Greater Than One
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Object 60: Conclusively Inconclusive
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV Cephei
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the Playground
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Sep 06, 2021 |
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Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Object 53: Fortified with Iron
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Aug 09, 2021 |
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Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma Rays
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Object 50: It's Blue but not Blueberry
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Object 49: Big in the South
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Object 48: It's Too Obvious To Say It's Complex
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May 31, 2021 |
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Object 47: BYOB
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May 17, 2021 |
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Object 46: Stability within a Cataclysm
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May 03, 2021 |
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Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery
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Apr 05, 2021 |
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Object 43: Does It Dark Matter?
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Object 42: The Inside Joke Galaxy
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Object 41: Bobbins
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Object 40: Sugar Formation
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Feb 08, 2021 |
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Object 39: Sort of Faster than the Speed of Light
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Object 38: The Clickbait Star
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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Object 37: Blowing Bubbles (or Cavities)
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Dec 28, 2020 |
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Object 36: Seventeen Ways to Oscillate
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Object 35: The Ursa Major Eye Test
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Object 34: Longer Than This Podcast Episode
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Object 33: Part of a Vegetarian Sausage
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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Object 32: Synonyms for Large
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Object 31: Jelly Bean Analysis
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Object 30: Measure the Correct Distance and Win a Prize
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Object 29: High Contrast
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Object 28: Stellar Assassination
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket Launcher
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees Celsius
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Jul 27, 2020 |
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Object 25: The Ultracool Neighbor
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Jul 13, 2020 |
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Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too Furious
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation
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May 18, 2020 |
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Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet
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May 04, 2020 |
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Object 19: Probably Not the Y2K Bug
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Apr 20, 2020 |
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Object 18: 0.2 Seconds of Gamma Rays
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Object 17: Confusing U
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Object 16: Playing Golf on the Moon
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Object 15: Calibrated Variability
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Object 14: Exoplanetary Acronym 103b
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Object 13: Stellar Companion Facial Reconstruction
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation
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Dec 30, 2019 |
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Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG
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Nov 18, 2019 |
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Object 7: Circles within Circles
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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Object 6: Extra Peculiar
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Object 3: Room Temperature
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Object 2: Variable Variability
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Aug 26, 2019 |
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Object 1: Not the Pope
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Aug 12, 2019 |