Astronomy

25 July 2022
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Stars that produce energy from hydrogen fusion are
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All main sequence stars
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Match star with stellar end-point
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Low mass star - white dwarf High mass star - neutron star Extremely high mass star - black hole
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Which objects could be associated with the evolution of a high-mass star?
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A pulsar or supernova remnant
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An astronaut who fell into a black hole would be stretched because:
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The gravity changes dramatically over a short distance
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If the Sun collapsed to a black hole today, how would it affect the Earth?
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It would be dark
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Which type of galaxies appear to have many young stars
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Disk galaxies
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Do disk galaxies have old stars
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yes
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Which type of galaxies are more likely to show evidence of dust
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Disk galaxies
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If a galaxy is experiencing active star formation, it must contain:
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Cool, dense gas
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Which type of galaxies have cool, dense gas available for star formation?
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Disk galaxies
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Which type of galaxy shows evidence of significant numbers of O-stars and M-stars?
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Disk galaxies
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Which type of galaxy is likely to contain many M-stars but few O-stars?
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Elliptical galaxies
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Imagine 3 widely separated galaxies arranged in a line. If you are in the first galaxy (1) you observe that both the middle (2) and the right galaxies (3) are moving away from you. If you asked observers in galaxy number 3 how galaxy number 2 appeared to move, what would they say?
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Galaxy 2 is moving away from Galaxy 3
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Astronomers observe two galaxies, A and B. Galaxy A has a recessional velocity of 1000 km/s, while galaxy B has a recessional velocity of 2000 km/s. This means that:
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Galaxy B is twice as far away as galaxy A
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The center of the universe:
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May not even exist
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Why aren't the Milky Way, the Solar System and even the Earth ripped apart due to the expansion of the Universe?
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The expansion of the Universe only occurs on the largest scales, and can only carry apart objects that aren't bound to each other
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If the universe were not expanding, the relationship between the velocity of a galaxy and its distance would:
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Be horizontal
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The Hubble constant is found from the,
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Slope of the line fit to the data in Hubble's law
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A universe that had a greater Hubble constant would,
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Be expanding quicker than ours
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A universe that expanded quicker than ours would be,
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Younger than our universe
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Which of the following is evidence for the existence of dark matter?
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The motions of stars in galaxies, the orbits of galaxies in galaxy clusters and the temperature of the gas in galaxy clusters
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It has been shown from recent observations that the universe is not only expanding but that the expansion is accelerating! Which of the following is believed to be responsible for the acceleration?
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Dark energy
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Observations of which of the following objects revealed the accelerated expansion of the universe?
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Supernovae
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Which of the following are moving apart due to the expansion of the universe?
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Two widely separated galaxies
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How is the motion of galaxies in our local group different from what we observe for distant galaxies?
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Some are moving toward us
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Which of the following will determine if the universe will expand forever?
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The amount of dark matter in the universe, the amount of dark energy in the universe and the amount of normal matter in the universe
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Over time the universe has become
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Bigger, cooler, and less dense
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Observations of the cosmic microwave background option have given us the following current composition of the universe: 5% normal matter, 23% dark matter, and 72% dark energy. How was the composition of the early universe different?
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There was less dark energy