Observations from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Showed That Gamma

question 97

Multiple Choice

Observations from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory showed that gamma ray bursts were located all over the sky.What did astronomers conclude from this?

• A)The bursts were produced by stars in the disk of our galaxy.
• B)The bursts were associated with planets in our solar system.
• C)The bursts were produced by sources in distant galaxies.
• D)The bursts were produced in our Sun.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data from its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Variability

A measure of how spread out or dispersed the values in a dataset are.

Bimodal

Bimodal describes a distribution having two different modes, which are the most frequently occurring data points in a dataset.

Distribution

The way in which values are spread or distributed across a range in a dataset.