Sitting in a hot tub with water at 100°F feels much hotter than standing outside in 100°F air on a hot day.This analogy illustrates why
A) interstellar dust is dark at optical wavelengths but bright in the infrared.
B) supernovae can heat their shells to such high temperatures.
C) an astronaut would not burn up while floating in 106 K intercloud gas.
D) the Solar System is immersed in a hot bubble of gas.
E) fusion occurs only in the cores of stars.
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Q7: Molecular hydrogen atoms can be found
A) nowhere
Q8: Warm ionized gas in the interstellar medium
Q9: What is the most likely explanation for
Q10: When looking at the space between stars,
Q11: A typical molecular cloud has a temperature
Q13: Dust reddens starlight because it
A) re-emits the
Q14: The average density of the interstellar medium
Q15: Which of the following is responsible for
Q16: Interstellar clouds are
A) hydrogen gas condensed out
Q17: When radiation from an object passes through
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