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Object 179: Ear of Wheat

Object 178: As Flat as the Argentinian Pampas

Object 177: Low

Object 176: The Star Hidden Behind the Interstellar Equivalent of Complicated Tax Forms

Object 175: Counterintuitive Supernova Explosions

Object 174: Toy Exoplanets

Object 173: The Hot Calibrator

Object 172: Lego Minifigures with Masers

Object 171: Guess Again

Object 170: Don't Forget the Feedback

Object 169: No Longer a Suspect

Object 168: A Very Good Looking Scientific Footnote

Object 167: Controversial Radiowaves

Object 166: An Overlooked Cluster

Object 165: A Hole in the Clouds

Object 164: Not Just Any Quasar But The Quasar

Object 163: Ludricous Rotation

Object 162: Slightly More Interesting Than a Medieval Anglo-Gallic Coin

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

Object 151: A Magnetic Whale

Object 150: And Now for Something Completely the Same

Object 149: Spaghetti Leftovers

Object 148: Problem Solving

Object 147: Nothing But Gas

Object 146: The Prototype of Peculiar

Object 145: Neutron Numbers Time

Object 144: Heavy Metals

Object 143: Almost Absolutely Awesome

Object 142: The Littlest Galaxy Ever Found

Object 141: Just a Very Nice Spiral

Object 140: Imagine All the Dust

Object 139: Recoil

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

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

Object 136: Barium

Object 135: Feedback Time

Object 134: Not Dead Yet

Object 133: Strong Arm Tactics

Object 132: I Need a 2002 Pop Culture Reference

Object 131: Get To Know Your Ultrafaint Neighbors

Object 130: Putting It All Together

Object 129: Rinky-Dink

Object 128: The Dwarf Living Inside the Bridge

Object 127: The Nebraska Blue Straggler Special

Object 126: Do Not Mention Exoplanet b Again

Object 125: The Business Form Variable Star System

Object 124: 6 > 2

Object 123: More Dampness

Object 122: Wait For It...

Object 121: Can You Find the Supermassive Black Hole?

Object 120: A Possible Source of the Cosmic Rays that Gave the Fantastic Four Their Superpowers

Object 119: Alpha Table

Object 118: The Golden Standard

Object 117: No Shockingly Dumb Jokes in This Episode

Object 116: The Really Really High Expectations Exoplanetary System

Object 115: Oyster?

Object 114: George's 2020 Data Processing Project from Hell

Object 113: The Mystery Spot

Object 112: Imagine Marilyn Monroe in a Movie Named the Great Attractor

Object 111: The 1925 Classic

Object 110: We Came, We Saw, We Measured

Object 109: A Water World without Kevin Costner

Object 108: Objects in the Mirror May Be More Complicated Than They Appear

Object 107: The Red Rectangle

Object 106: A Tale of Two Binary Star Systems

Object 105: Super-Slow Star Formation

Object 104: Going Cross Country for a Supermassive Black Hole

Object 103: The Pulsar within the Cosmic Hand

Object 102: Another Ring Thing

Object 101: Warm and Cold

Object 100: The Self-Descriptive Nebula

Object 99: No References to the Six Wives of Henry VIII

Object 98: Double the Black Holes for Double the Fun

Object 97: A Runaway Cow

Object 96: The Proof-Of-Concept Exoplanet

Object 95: Two Non-Archaeological Relics

Object 94: So Hot and So Small

Object 93: Superthin

Object 92: Look at This Elliptical Galaxy Instead

Object 91: The Second Air Pump Galaxy

Object 90: The Globular Cluster in a Forest Fire

Object 89: Relationship Status - It's Complicated

Object 88: Some Sort of Weird, Ultraviolet Freak of Nature

Object 87: The Fake Sphere

Object 86: Two Hellscapes Orbiting a Red Dwarf

Object 85: The Swedish Stellar Superstore

Object 84: Eccentricity

Object 83: Number 1 in 1970

Object 82: Officially Peculiar

Object 81: Unusually Shocking

Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode

Object 79: The Magic of Circumstellar Semantics

Object 78: A Dwarf Galaxy with Something for Everyone

Object 77: Another 90's Gamma Ray Flashback

Object 76: A Modern Non-Comet

Object 75: The Completely Unconcerned Open Cluster

Object 74: The Brightest Star on the Argo

Object 73: A Very Distant Infrared Smudge

Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis

Object 71: The Black Hole That Didn't Get Its Morning Coffee

Object 70: The Uncredited Star

Object 69: How To Avoid Photobombing Asteroids

Object 68: Reflections in Quotation Marks

Object 67: The Weird Sphere

Object 66: This Episode Brought to You by the Letter B

Object 65: The Infrared Twin

Object 64: An Actual Use for Einstein's Famous Equation

Object 63: A Rant About Variable Star Classifications

Object 62: Imaged Before the Hubble Space Telescope Was Fixed

Object 61: Greater Than One

Object 60: Conclusively Inconclusive

Object 59: Do Not Confuse With VV Cephei

Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here

Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei

Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet

Object 55: The Quiet Kid on the Edge of the Playground

Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home

Object 53: Fortified with Iron

Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery

Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma Rays

Object 50: It's Blue but not Blueberry

Object 49: Big in the South

Object 48: It's Too Obvious To Say It's Complex

Object 47: BYOB

Object 46: Stability within a Cataclysm

Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again

Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery

Object 43: Does It Dark Matter?

Object 42: The Inside Joke Galaxy

Object 41: Bobbins

Object 40: Sugar Formation

Object 39: Sort of Faster than the Speed of Light

Object 38: The Clickbait Star

Object 37: Blowing Bubbles (or Cavities)

Object 36: Seventeen Ways to Oscillate

Object 35: The Ursa Major Eye Test

Object 34: Longer Than This Podcast Episode

Object 33: Part of a Vegetarian Sausage

Object 32: Synonyms for Large

Object 31: Jelly Bean Analysis

Object 30: Measure the Correct Distance and Win a Prize

Object 29: High Contrast

Object 28: Stellar Assassination

Object 27: More Powerful than a Football Player with a Rocket Launcher

Object 26: Cold at 14 Million Degrees Celsius

Object 25: The Ultracool Neighbor

Object 24: Too Fast but Not Too Furious

Object 23: The Counterrevolutionary from Centaurus

Object 22: Above and Below or Something Like That

Object 21: Retro Gaming and Star Formation

Object 20: A Classic Non-Comet

Object 19: Probably Not the Y2K Bug

Object 18: 0.2 Seconds of Gamma Rays

Object 17: Confusing U

Object 16: Playing Golf on the Moon

Object 15: Calibrated Variability

Object 14: Exoplanetary Acronym 103b

Object 13: Stellar Companion Facial Reconstruction

Object 12: Watching Infrared Paint Dry

Object 11: Howling Fast Differential Rotation

Object 10: Ram Your Jellyfish

Object 9: A Cruise Holiday with a Peculiar Carbon Star

Object 8: A Misbehaving LIRG

Object 7: Circles within Circles

Object 6: Extra Peculiar

Object 5: Some Unexpected Helium

Object 4: A Damp Lyman Alpha Elephant

Object 3: Room Temperature

Object 2: Variable Variability

Object 1: Not the Pope