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Object 161: More Subclassifications

27/10/2025

George's Random Astronomical Object

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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.

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Object 161: More Subclassifications
27/10/2025
8:14
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.
Object 160: A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard Font
13/10/2025
8:47
The spiral galaxy NGC 3718 has an unusually weird spiral shape, which belies its unusual history.
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Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star
29/09/2025
8:58
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.
Object 158: Dark Burst
15/09/2025
8:11
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.
Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets
01/09/2025
8:23
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.
Object 156: Dust Puffs
18/08/2025
7:56
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.
Object 155: Pinwheel
04/08/2025
11:21
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.
Object 154: The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on Hiatus
21/07/2025
8:47
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.
Object 153: A Wolf Within a Wolf
07/07/2025
7:17
Hen 2-113 is a rather unusual planetary nebula that formed not when a Sun-like star died but when a large, massive, and extraordinarily hot Wolf-Rayet star blew away its outer hydrogen layers.
Object 152: The Spiderweb Flashlight
23/06/2025
8:39
The quasar PKS 2126-158 has been popular to observe because astronomers can see many different things between the quasar and Earth, including an entire cluster of galaxies, that are absorbing light from the quasar.

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Object 161: More Subclassifications

George's Random Astronomical Object

D'autres épisodes de "George's Random Astronomical Object"

Object 161: More Subclassifications

Object 160: A Spiral Galaxy Using a Non-Standard Font

Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star

Object 158: Dark Burst

Object 157: Something More Interesting than Three Exoplanets

Object 156: Dust Puffs

Object 155: Pinwheel

Object 154: The Binary Star System That Needed to Go on Hiatus

Object 153: A Wolf Within a Wolf

Object 152: The Spiderweb Flashlight