The types of stars called _____________________  ________________  __________________ (three words) are a particularly luminous type of pulsating variable star that follow a period–luminosity relation and hence are very useful for measuring cosmic distances.

The best measurements of the mass of the black hole at the galactic center come from

A method of measuring distances within the solar system by bouncing radio waves off planets is called _________________  ___________________ (two words).

The Model Minority myth is used in reference to which ethnic group in the United States?

Observing our galaxy at radio wavelengths allows us to see through the dust in the disk that obscures our view.

Stars in the _______________ region of the Milky Way galaxy are all old, having a very low proportion of heavy elements.

Why do virtually all the galaxies in the universe appear to be moving away from our own?

__________________  ________________ (two words) look like flat white disks with yellowish bulges at their centers. The disks are filled with cool gas and dust, interspersed with hotter ionized gas, and usually display beautiful spiral arms.

X-ray images of the Sun generally show the

CRISPR RNAs (crRNAs) are transcribed by bacterial cells, but do not immediately begin being translated, like most other bacterial genes. Compared to normal bacterial mRNA, what would crRNAs lack that prevent them from being translated?