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Modified MasteringAstronomy with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for The Essential Cosmic Perspective (7th Edition)
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Author: Jeffrey O. Bennett, Megan O. Donahue, Nicholas Schneider, Mark Voit
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Chapter 15, Problem 1VSC
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The color that represents the brightest radio emission and the color that represents the lowest levels of brightness.

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The color that represents the brightest radio emission is white and the color that represents the lowest levels of brightness is black/dark blue.

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As the cold, dense molecular clouds are concentrated in a narrow layer near the midplane of the galactic disk, the white color in the middle represents the brightest radio emission.

As we see away from the midplane, there is less concentration of molecular clouds. So, the black/dark blue color represents the lowest levels of brightness.

Conclusion:

The color that represents the brightest radio emission is white and the color that represents the lowest levels of brightness is black/dark blue.

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