Question 1 2 pts On a clear night, you can see about 1,000 stars with your naked

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Question 1 2 pts On a clear night, you can see about 1,000 stars with your naked eye. These stars are all part of the Milky Way Galaxy. The average bright star is a few dozen parsecs away from us, but some of them are a few hundred or even more than a thousand parsecs away. Below are three depictions of the Milky Way with circles overlaid to denote three possible boundaries inside of which all the naked eye stars might lie. Which boundary, A, B, or C, best represents the true distribution of naked eye stars?

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A represent the true distribution of naked eye stars as closest stars are the brightest and takes less time to reach us.The stars situated at larger distance would die as its light would reach an observer on earth.

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