Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time

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PSR J1518+4904 is one of the very few identified double neutron stars, and it has provided opportunities to perform unique measurements on the objects.

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Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time

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PSR J1518+4904 is one of the very few identified double neutron stars, and it has provided opportunities to perform unique measurements on the objects.

149 episodes

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The globular cluster Messier 54 is not part of our galaxy but actually the nuclear stellar core of a dwarf galaxy that has nealy been completely gravitationally torn apart by the Milky Way.

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Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time 10:56

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PSR J1518+4904 is one of the very few identified double neutron stars, and it has provided opportunities to perform unique measurements on the objects.

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Object 144: Heavy Metals 8:05

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Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found 10:31

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The awkwardly-named Segue 2 is (as of the time of the publication of this episode) the smallest galaxy anyone has ever found.

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Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral 12:32

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Messier 74 is just a very nice looking face-on spiral galaxy, which has made it quite useful for many different types of astrophysical analyses.

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Object 140: Imagine All the Dust 9:44

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Object 139: Recoil 8:16

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The galaxy 3C 186 features a supermassive black hole with a mass several billions of times the mass of the Sun that has been ejected 36000 light years out of the galaxy's nucleus.

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Object 138: A Weird Example of a Weird Subclass of a Weird Class of Objects 8:40

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Object 137: The Bedtime Story of the Black Hole that was Too Large for its Galaxy 8:17

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Object 136: Barium 10:43

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Object 135: Feedback Time 9:01

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