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25 Questions

1. Where Is Most Of The Gas And Dust In The Mwg?

2. Where Are Most Of The Stars In The Mwg

3. What Were Born First In The Galaxy?

4. Where Is Young Stuff Found In The Mwg?

5. What Turnoff Do Globular Star Clusters Have?

6. What Is The Breakdown Of The Thickness Of The Disk Component?

7. What Make Up The Spherical Component?

8. What Are The Two Main Components To The Mwg?

9. What Are Population I Objects?

10. At What Wavelength Band Can We Observe The Center Of Our Galaxy?

11. How Are Population Ii Stars Different Than The Sun?

12. What Does The Orbital Velocity Of Stars Suggest About The Mass Of Our Galaxy?

13. Who Discovered That When Viewed Through A Telescope - The Milky Way Is Resolved Into Thousands Of Individual Stars?

14. Where Does Nearly All Star Formation Occur Within The Mwg?

15. William Herchel's Model Of The Milky Way...

16. How Long Does It Take For The Sun To Orbit The Galaxy's Center?

17. What Turnoff Do Open Star Clusters Have?

18. What Main Conclusion Did The Herschels Draw From Their Star Counts?

19. What Main Conclusion Did Shapley Draw From His Measurements Of The Distances To The Globular Clusters?

20. What Are Cosmic Rays/Particles?

21. What Must Be Measured To Determine Distance By The Cepheid Variable Star Method?

22. What Part Of The Disk Component Are Optical Tracers? (Visible Evidence)

23. What Are Population 2 Objects?

24. What Are Characteristics Of Star Clusters In The Disk Component?

25. The Abundance Of Metal In Older Stars Is Not The Same As In Younger Stars. Why Is This?