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What evidence contradicts the monolithic collapse hypothesis for the origin of our galaxy?

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Ch. 12 - Why is it difficult to specify the dimensions of...Ch. 12 - Why didn’t astronomers before Shapley realize how...Ch. 12 - What evidence can you cite that our galaxy has a...Ch. 12 - Contrast the motion of the disk stars and that of...Ch. 12 - Why are all spiral tracers young?Ch. 12 - Why couldn’t spiral arms be physically connected...Ch. 12 - What are some hypotheses for mechanisms to trigger...Ch. 12 - Why does self-sustaining star formation produce...Ch. 12 - Describe the kinds of observations you would make...Ch. 12 - Why must astronomers use infrared telescopes to...
Ch. 12 - What evidence can you cite that the nucleus of the...Ch. 12 - Why are metals less abundant in older stars than...Ch. 12 - Why do metal-poor stars have a wider range of...Ch. 12 - What evidence contradicts the monolithic collapse...Ch. 12 - How Do We know? Calibration simplifies complex...Ch. 12 - How Do We Know? The story of a process makes the...Ch. 12 - How would our understanding of the Milky Way...Ch. 12 - The three most important attributes in real estate...Ch. 12 - Make a scale sketch of our galaxy in cross...Ch. 12 - Because of interstellar dust, astronomers can see...Ch. 12 - If the fastest passenger aircraft can fly 0.45...Ch. 12 - If a typical halo star has an orbital velocity of...Ch. 12 - If the RR Lyrae stars in a globular cluster have...Ch. 12 - If interstellar dust makes an RR Lyrae variable...Ch. 12 - If you assume that a globular cluster 4.0 arc...Ch. 12 - If the Sun is 4.6 billion years old, how many...Ch. 12 - If astronomers were to find they have made a...Ch. 12 - What temperature would interstellar dust have to...Ch. 12 - Infrared radiation from the center of our galaxy...Ch. 12 - If an object at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy...Ch. 12 - Why does the galaxy in Figure UN 12-3 have so much...Ch. 12 - Why are the spiral arms in the galaxy in Figure UN...

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