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1. What prominent northern hemisphere star was the first to have its spectrum photographed?
2. An interstellar cloud of gas known as an H-II region is mainly composed of what?
3. What celestial object is known as the morning star or the evening star depending on when it is seen in the sky?
4. Why is the North America Nebula in Cygnus so named?
5. Many variable stars brighten periodically and some brighten only once such as a supernova but there is one class of variable stars that spends most of the time more or less at a constant brightness only to dim considerably for weeks or months at a time. What class of variable stars exhibits this behavior?
6. What cosmologically profound discovery did Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson make in 1965?
7. A galaxy of type SBa appears as an elongated oval with no trace of spiral arms.
8. Which planet of the Solar System is accompanied by two moons named for the Greek gods of fear and terror?
9. On what kind of diagram are stars plotted according to their surface temperature and luminosity?
10. If a star is of apparent magnitude 4.6 and its absolute magnitude is also 4.6, what do you know for certain about the star?
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