The blue color of a reflection nebula is produced by:
A) light emitted by the gas cloud that is Doppler shifted as the cloud moves rapidly toward us.
B) the continuum emission of very hot gas and dust.
C) emission from specific transitions in hydrogen gas.
D) selective scattering from very small dust grains.
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