The Factor That Misled Herschel into Concluding That the Stars

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Multiple Choice

The factor that misled Herschel into concluding that the stars of the Milky Way were distributed with the Sun at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy was

• A) hot hydrogen gas in the Galaxy, its emission hiding the more distant stars.
• B) interstellar dust that obscured the more distant stars and thereby localized his observations.
• C) gravitational bending of light by the mass of the Galaxy, distorting the relative positions of the stars.
• D) that most of the "stars" he measured were in fact distant galaxies that are distributed uniformly around the Sun.

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