Sinopsis
Science discussions about astronomical objects selected at random locations in the sky.
Episodios
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Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star
02/12/2019 Duración: 09minThe star HD 214714 contains not only a large amount of carbon in its stellar atmosphere but also a peculiar combination of other heavy elements as well.
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Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG
18/11/2019 Duración: 10minII Zw 96 is a luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) where most of the infrared emission comes from some type of off-center region, which is weird compared to most other LIRGs.
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Object 7: Circles within Circles
04/11/2019 Duración: 11min30 Ari contains four stars and an exoplanet all arranged in a rather complex set of nested orbits.
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Object 6: Extra Peculiar
21/10/2019 Duración: 08minHD 98851 is both an Am chemically peculiar star and a delta Scuti variable star, and it has two different pulsation cycles, which makes it really peculiar.
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Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium
07/10/2019 Duración: 10minRV Octantis would be considered a run-of-the-mill RR Lyrae variable star if it wasn't for the unexpected discovery of helium in its atmosphere.
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Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant
23/09/2019 Duración: 13minThe most interesting thing about the quasar LBSQ 0058+0155 is not the quasar itself but the galaxy between the quasar and Earth.
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Object 3: Room Temperature
09/09/2019 Duración: 08minHD 85512 is a nearby star slightly smaller and more orange than the Sun. It happens to have an exoplanet that could be close to Earth-like.
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Object 2: Variable Variability
26/08/2019 Duración: 09minHS Hydrae is a variable eclipsing binary star, which sounds more unusual than it actually is. However, it's precessing, which is not only unusual but also causes the variability to vary over time.
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Object 1: Not the Pope
12/08/2019 Duración: 08minThe Leo IV Dwarf Galaxy is one of several ultra faint dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. Galaxies like this are weird relics of when the universe first formed; they contain very old stellar populations and abnormally large amounts of dark matter.