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The Light from a Distant Cloud of Gas and Dust

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The light from a distant cloud of gas and dust looks distinctly red to the unaided eye. When a spectrum is taken, the red color is found to come from a single, bright spectral line. Thus, the red color in this situation is due to


A) interstellar reddening.
B) the Balmer spectrum of hydrogen.
C) the Doppler effect.
D) interstellar reddening, the Balmer spectrum of hydrogen, or the Doppler effect.

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