Review 01

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True: Interstellar reddening! While the Hubble won’t have to contend with the Earth’s atmosphere, a star viewed through an interstellar cloud will appear reddened, because blue light (shorter wavelength, higher frequency) will be scattered by the cloud while red light (longer wavelength, lower frequency) will pass through the cloud unaffected. This is exactly the same scattering physics which causes our own sky to appear blue.

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