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Question 1Which of the following is the longest? Question 2I see a very faint star. This could mean: Question 3In an atom, the electrons are located... Question 4Star A has brighter absolute magnitude than star B. What does that say about the luminosity of the two stars? Question 5I found a hydrogen-9 isotope. How many neutrons does it have? Question 6Which of the following is a main-sequence star? Question 7A proton is made of... Question 8Compared to RR Lyrae variables, cepheid variables typically have... Question 9I want to measure the distance to a star that is estimated to be a few thousand light-years away. Which method should I use? Question 10A photon has a wavelength of 700 nm. What color is it? Question 11A star is located on the top left of the H-R diagram. This star has... Question 12Which of the following is a red dwarf? Question 13A star was measured to have a parallax of 0.25 arc seconds. How far away is the star? Question 14What kind of mass is defined as the strength of an object's gravitational field? Question 15In the proton-proton chain, how many total helium nuclei do we end up with? Question 16In the H-R diagram, red giants can be found... Question 17I observed an object, larger than Earth but smaller than the Sun, which generates light by deuterium fusion but not hydrogen fusion. What is it? Question 18Photon A has wavelength 1 cm. Photon B has wavelength 2 cm. Which photon has a higher frequency? Question 19What is nuclear fusion? Question 20Which of the following stars is the coolest? Question 21If a particle has charge +1, what would be the charge of its antiparticle? Question 22If the spectral lines of a star shift toward blue, this means... Question 23Object A has mass 1 kg. Object B has mass 9 kg. According to E=mc2, how much rest energy does object B have compared to A? Question 24Which of the following stars is the brightest in the sky? Question 25What happens in electron-positron annihilation?
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