Trumpler Discovered the Effect of Interstellar Dust by Comparing Two

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Trumpler discovered the effect of interstellar dust by comparing two different distance measurements of distant clusters. The first was based on appearance (concentration of stars toward the center, etc.) , which was unaffected by dust. The other was spectroscopic parallax (use of the H-R diagram) , which was affected by dust. What should such a comparison show?

• A) The H-R diagram should always give larger distances.
• B) The H-R diagram should always give smaller distances.
• C) There should be no difference in the distances.
• D) The distances should be different, but sometimes the H-R diagram should give the larger distance and sometimes the smaller distance depending on the actual distance to the cluster.

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