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Blue astronomy is a lecture from the radiation astronomy department for the course on the principles of radiation astronomy.

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{Complete the text: The swirls of tan, green, blue, and white are most likely { sediment (i) } in the water. Some of the color may come from { phytoplankton (i) }.
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{True or False, Hydrogen has an emission line in the blue. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which chemical phenomena are associated with the Earth? + quartz is the second most abundant mineral + an atmosphere containing CO2 + green, red, blue, and yellow airglow + the production and escape of hot H+ ions + oxygen emissions + helium ions
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{Yes or No, Helium has an emission line in the blue. + Yes - No
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{Which of the following is not a prominent contributor associated with the bluish color of water on Earth? + the blue sky - chlorophyll - dissolved organic matter - cyanobacteria - decomposition processes from dead organic matter such as plants - highly organic soils
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{Azurite is a natural pigment composed of what likely source of blue? { copper|copper oxide|copper carbonate|copper hydroxide (i) }
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{True or False, Lithium has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Why is much of the surface of Mars covered with red iron oxide dust when the rocks that compose much of its surface are blue or violet? - Mars has been systematically bombarded with small iron-nickel meteorites or micrometeorites that oxidize in its atmosphere - Mars has been frequently bombarded with hematite containing micrometeorites - asteroid impacts on Mars may have forced iron from near its core into the atmosphere and onto the surface as hematite dust that oxidized - Mars is like Earth in surface hematite composition, but Earth has much more water + precipitation from iron-rich water
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{True or False, Beryllium has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{ What is the blue-radiation source [hint: planet] in the image at right? { Earth (i) }
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{True or False, Boron has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Observations of comets have benefited greatly from what phenomenon of cyan astronomy? - Cherenkov radiation - the electric blue glow of lightning - gas-expansion velocity decreases with increasing heliocentric distance - methane possesses prominent absorption bands in the visible - adaptive optics + the light of the neutral CN-radical
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{True or False, To date, all of the reported hypervelocity stars (HVSs), which are believed to be ejected from the Galactic center, are blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following is involved in planetary astronomy more so than planetary science? + the occurrence of blue rock types on the surface of rocky objects - the Earth and other rocky objects have a green mineral containing mantle - checking equations about complex systems + the advantages of a 559 nm band pass - digging holes in the surface of Mars + surface temperatures low enough to produce methane lakes
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{True or False, Carbon has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are characteristic of interstellar extinction? + redder color indices - closer stars more affected + color excess + observed color index minus intrinsic color index - red shift - blue shift
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{True or False, The red shift cannot affect blue stars. - TRUE + FALSE
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{Which of the following are theoretical radiation astronomy phenomena associated with a laboratory on Earth? + a core which emits neutrinos + a charged particle wind which emanates out of a beam line + gravity + near the barycenter for the Earth-Moon system + swirls of tan, green, blue, and white in the water + electric arcs - chlorophyll-containing phytoplankton aloft in the upper atmosphere
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{True or False, Nitrogen has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are theoretical radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the Earth? - a core which emits neutrinos - a charged particle wind which emanates out the polar ionosphere holes + gravity + near the barycenter for the Earth-Moon system + the swirls of tan, green, blue, and white are most likely sediment in the water - coronal clouds + chlorophyll-containing phytoplankton aloft in the upper atmosphere
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{True or False, Oxygen has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the gaseous-object Neptune? - Voyager 2 + blue rays + clouds - neutron emission - polar coronal holes + meteor emission - rotation
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{True or False, Fluorine has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are theoretical radiation astronomy phenomena associated with a satellite in orbit around the Earth? + background radiation - a charged particle wind which emanates out of a beam line + gravity + near the barycenter for the Earth-Moon system - swirls of tan, green, blue, and white in the water + electric arcs + chlorophyll-containing phytoplankton aloft in the upper atmosphere
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{True or False, Neon has an emission line in the blue. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Match up the radiation letter with each of the detector possibilities below: Optical rays - L Visual rays - M Violet rays - N Blue rays - O Cyan rays - P Green rays - Q Yellow rays - R Orange rays - S Red rays - T multialkali (Na-K-Sb-Cs) photocathode materials { L (i) }. F547M { Q (i) }. F675W { T (i) }. broad-band filter centered at 404 nm { N (i) }. F588N { R (i) }. thallium bromide (TlBr) crystals { O (i) }. F606W { S (i) }. 18 micrometers FWHM at 490 nm { P (i) }. wide-gap II-VI semiconductor ZnO doped with Co2+ (Zn1-xCoxO) { M (i) }.
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{True or False, There are blue or blue mineral containing meteorites. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Which of the following are theoretical radiation astronomy phenomena associated with a wanderer? + possible orbits + a charged particle wind + gravity + near the barycenter of its system - swirls of tan, green, blue, and white in the liquid methane + electric arcs + chlorophyll-containing phytoplankton aloft in an upper atmosphere
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{True or False, Hematite occurs as a blue to bluish-gray mineral on Mars. + TRUE - FALSE
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{Complete the text: Match up the blue object with the possibilities below: Sun - H Mercury - I Venus - J Earth - K Meteorite on Mars - L Pallas - M Comet Holmes - N Europa - O Io - P Saturn - Q Enceladus - R Tethys - S Titan - T Neptune - U Abell 370 - V SN 1987A - W Crab Nebula - X { T (i) }. { H (i) }. { N (i) }. { M (i) }. { S (i) }. { X (i) }. { O (i) }. { J (i) }. { V (i) }. { K (i) }. { R (i) }. { W (i) }. { Q (i) }. { L (i) }. { U (i) }. { I (i) }. { P (i) }.
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{Yes or No, An aurora seen from Australia may be a first blue radiation source. + Yes - No
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{Complete the text: Regarding a blue haze layer near the south polar region of Titan, the difference in color { blue (i) } above and { orange (i) } nearer the { surface (i) } could be due to { particle size (i) } of the haze.
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{True or False, Any small luminous blue dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots is most likely to be an active galactic nucleus. - TRUE + FALSE
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Hypotheses

 * 1) Blue astronomy captures unique events not available at other wavelength bands.