Chi Cygni is a Mira-type variable star with some of the most extreme variations in brightness among any variable stars in the sky.

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Object 58: Insert Guitar Riff Here

3C 147 is not the first object ever identified as a quasar, but it is sort of one of the first two objects ever called a quasar.

Object 57: One of 57 Varieties of Active Galactic Nuclei

Astronomers may not have found an exoplanet orbiting the star HD 191089, but they found the next best thing.

Object 56: The Next Best Thing to an Exoplanet

The WLM Galaxy is located at the edge of the Local Group where it is relatively unaffected by everything happening around the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy.

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

Jets of gas that are several light years long are emerging from the blue supergiant MWC 137, and no one knows why.

Object 54: Build Your Own Hypothesis At Home

Most globular clusters are among the first stars to form in the universe, but the globular cluster NGC 6352 seems abnormally young in comparison.

Object 53: Fortified with Iron

It took 10 years of observations for astronomers to determine that the star HD 154345 had a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting it.

Object 52: The 10 Year Long Discovery

While the gamma ray burst GRB 090926A itself might be interesting to some astronomers (particularly desperate gamma ray astronomers), the interstellar gas between the burst and Earth may be even more interesting.

Object 51: Swipe Right for Gamma Rays

IC 10 is a nearby starburst, a type of galaxy that is forming stars at a very high rate (for its size) that should not be confused with the fruit flavored candy.

Object 50: It's Blue but not Blueberry

The cluster of galaxies Abell S1063 was only reported as a discovery in the 1980s, but it has attracted a lof of attention because of how it gravitationally distorts the light of galaxies behind it.

Object 49: Big in the South

The S254-S258 Complex is a chain of ionized gas bubbles connected by a filament of cold interstellar gas and dust where star are forming in a complicated (or possibly complex) way.

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

NGC 3504 contains three rings, two bars, and a supermassive black hole but no locations licensed to sell alcohol (as far as astronomers know).

Object 47: BYOB

An exoplanet has managed to stay in a stable orbit around LX Serpentis despite the fact that it is a cataclysmic binary star system with a chaotic past.

Object 46: Stability within a Cataclysm

Markarian 590 contains an active galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole, and the region around the black hole has strangely changed in brightness a couple of times in the past 50 years.

Object 45: Try Turning it Off and On Again

When it was discovered, WD 0806-661B was described as a very cool, very low mass brown dwarf, but it could actually be better characterized as a large exoplanet.

Object 44: The Understated Exoplanet Discovery

Science discussions about astronomical objects at randomly selected locations in the sky.

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