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Galileo's book Dialogo strongly defended the work of which astronomer?
 
  a. Ptolemy
 b. Tycho
 c. Copernicus
  d. Kepler
 e. Aristotle

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Millisecond pulsars _____.
 
  a. are created in supernova explosions of the most massive stars
  b. result from the collision of two neutron stars
 c. represent the youngest pulsars detected
 d. result from long-term mass transfer from a companion star
  e. are a theoretical prediction that has not been observed

Question 3

The 99 years that revolutionized Astronomy ended with whose death?
 
  a. Aristotle
 b. Kepler
 c. Tycho
 d. Copernicus
  e. Galileo

Question 4

An X-ray burster occurs in a pulsar when ____.
 
  a. accreted helium suddenly fuses in a nova-like explosion
 b. the Chandrasekhar limit is exceeded and the object collapses
 c. carbon deflagration destroys the object
 d. it merges with a binary companion
 e. hydrogen fusion ignites in an accretion disk around it

Question 5

Which model did Galileo disprove by discovering the transit of Venus?
 
  a. Ptolemaic
 b. Copernican
  c. Aristotelian
  d. Plutonic
 e. Kepler
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This helps so much, thank you for responding so quickly...
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No worries, I was online and bored Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
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