George's Random Astronomical Object

Located at the edge of the Local Group, the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy has some of the stars with the fewest elements other than hydrogen or helium in the known universe.

Observations with a telescope as large as the Untied States were needed to prove that J16021+3326 is a blazar, a type of galaxy containing a supermassive black hole.

PSR B1509-58 is a relatively young pulsar that sits within a supernova remnant that looks like a giant hand.

The spiral galaxy NGC 7552 is best known for its relatively small but bright starburst ring.

The star Eta Corvi is surrounded by a disk of dust with a rather complex structure and rather complex origin.

The Taurus Molecular Cloud is exactly what it sounds like it is, a cloud made of mulecular gas (mostly molecular hydrogen) in the constellation Taurus, but it is also much more than that.

Abell 514 is a cluster of galaxies that contains six radio galaxies, and the polarized radio emission from those six radio galaxies can be used to probe the magnetic fields within the cluster.

Markarian 266 is a pair of merging galaxies that now contains two supermassive black holes.

Mu Columbae is a bright, blue star that was ejected from the Orion Nebula in a complex gravitational interaction involving three other stars.

WASP-1 was the first star identified as having an exoplanet by the Wide Angle Search for Planets and thus helped to validate the techniques used by that survey.

The cluster Abell 168 formed from the merger of two smaller clusters, and this had many weird effects on the intracluster gas between the galaxies.

WD 2211-495 is a small, hot white dwarf with a rather unusual amount of heavy elements in its outer atmosphere, implying that something from a surrounding planetary system occasionally falls into the star.

UGC 7321 is an unusually flat (or superthin) spiral galaxy, which is indicative of how it has avoided gravitational interactions with other galaxies that could alter its shape.

The elliptical galaxy contains an abnormal amount of interstellar dust with no accompanying interstellar gas, which is weird.

Antlia 2, which was recently discovered orbiting the Milky Way, is the most diffuse galaxy that anyone has ever discovered up to this point in time.

UKS 1 probably lies on the far side of the Milky Way, and its light is heavily obscured by interstellar dust, but even though it's hard to see, astronomers are still really interested in it.

R Aquarii could be described as one of the closest symbiotic binary star systems to Earth, but it's more complicated than that.

NGC 6052 looks like a spiral galaxy smashing into a wall of stars, which is more or less what is actually happening.

Although at first NGC 6781 may look like a spherical planetary nebula, it actually has a cylindrical shape, which has rather complex scientific implications for analyzing this object.

The red dwarf HD 260655 has two large, hot, rocky planets orbiting very close to it.