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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.

17/03/2026

Podcast episode 171 about the active galactic nucleus 3C 324 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0171.html . Here is an image from 1995 combining Hubble Space Telescope and radio data (credit: M. Longair (Cambridge University, England), NASA, and NRAO).

16/02/2026

Podcast episode 169 of George's Random Astronomical Object about the dwarf galaxy LGS 3 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0169.html . Here's an image of the galaxy from Diedre A. Hunter.

19/01/2026

Episode 167 about the cluster of galaxies Abell 4038 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0167.html. Here's an image of the cluster from PanSTARRS.

10/11/2025

Podcast episode 162 about the lenticular galaxy NGC 1172 is online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0162.html. Here is a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope (posted on Wikipedia). It's not the most exciting galaxy to look at, but the science is interesting.

13/10/2025

Podcast episode 160 about the "spiral" galaxy NGC 3718 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0160.html . Here is an image of it and the nearby galaxy NGC 3729 from Wikipedia (credit: Safiy14).

30/09/2025

Podcast episode 159 about the double star Albireo is online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0159.html . Here's a photo from astrophotographer Jared Smith (see https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredsmith/3210610987).

18/08/2025

Podcast episode 156 about the variable star Z Ursae Minoris is online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0156.html . Here is an artistic depiction of the star surrounded by a haze of dust (credit: ESO).

04/08/2025

Podcast episode 155 about the spiral galaxy M101 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0155.html . Here is an ultraviolet / infrared image of the galaxy that I made a few years ago based on data that I've used in my research.

22/07/2025

Podcast episode 154 featuring the complex binary star system A 0535+26 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0154.html . I don't have a good schematical picture of what this system looks like in detail, so here's an image of the star system from the 2MASS survey.

07/07/2025

Podcast episode 153 about the planetary nebula Hen 2-113 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0153.html . I don't have a good image of the nebula I can share, so I decided to share this image of the constellation Lupus (from Johann Bode's Uranographia; credit: Jacopo Montano) in which the object is located.

25/06/2025

Podcast episode 152 about the quasar PKS 2126-158 is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0152.html . Here is an image from the PanSTARRS survey. (It's more interesting than this image makes it look.)

09/06/2025

Podcast episode 151 about the evolved star Beta Ceti is now online at https://www.randomastronomicalobject.com/object0151.html . Here is an image from the Digitized Sky Survey. (It's hard to find a better creative commons image.)

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