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Quiz: How does the interstellar medium obscure our view of most of the
galaxy?
Ans: The small mixture of dust grains in the interstellar medium absorbs
visible light
Quiz: Greenhouse gases warm a planet like Earth by
Ans: retaining more infrared light emitted by the Earth
Quiz: At present, what is the primary way that astronomers carry out SETI
programs (that is, search for extraterrestrial intelligence)
Ans: by using radio telescopes to search for signals from extraterrestrial
civilizations
Quiz: What component of the primordial interstellar cloud became the
inner planets?
Ans: The dust grains
Quiz: When we look at the great galaxy in Andromeda we see it as it
was approximately
Ans: 2.5 million years ago
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, Quiz: Particle physicists are interested in the conditions in the early
Universe because
Ans: this allows them to test unified field theories uniting the fundamental
forces of nature
Quiz: Which of the following has a linear size or radius closest to the
radius of a white dwarf?
Ans: the Earth
Quiz: Harlow Shapley concluded that the Sun was not located at the
center of the Milky Way Galaxy by
Ans: mapping the distribution of globular clusters in the galaxy
Quiz: Dark matter is composed of:
Ans: no one knows for sure
Quiz: Jupiter's composition is closest to that of
Ans: the Sun
Quiz: About how old is the Solar System?
Ans: 5,000,000,000 years
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