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Object 166: An Overlooked Cluster

1/5/2026

George's Random Astronomical Object

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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.

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Object 166: An Overlooked Cluster
1/5/2026
10:40
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.
Object 165: A Hole in the Clouds
12/22/2025
8:54
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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Object 164: Not Just Any Quasar But The Quasar
12/8/2025
11:05
Markarian 231 is now widely recognized not only as the closest quasar to Earth but also as a very bright ultraluminous infrared galaxy.
Object 163: Ludricous Rotation
11/24/2025
8:07
The pulsar PSR J1022+1001 is one of a small subclass of pulsars named millisecond pulsars because they rotate one every few milliseconds.
Object 162: Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic Coin
11/10/2025
9:26
The lenticular galaxy NGC 1172 contains two different populations of globular clusters, which indicates something about the history of the galaxy.
Object 161: More Subclassifications
10/27/2025
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
10/13/2025
8:47
The spiral galaxy NGC 3718 has an unusually weird spiral shape, which belies its unusual history.
Object 159: That One Very Famous Double Star
9/29/2025
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
9/15/2025
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
9/1/2025
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.

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