Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
Students are assigned to read online articles on current astronomy events, and take a short current events quiz during the first 10 minutes of lab. (This motivates students to show up promptly to lab, as the time cut-off for the quiz is strictly enforced!)
Leonardo Almeida, Hugues Sana, Selma de Mink, Richard Hook, "Final Kiss of Two Stars Heading for Catastrophe" (October 21, 2015)The stars in the "overcontact binary" system VFTS 352 discovered by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope may: (A) share some of their material.
eso.org/public/usa/news/eso1540/
(B) detach to become two separate stars.
(C) have twin sets of Earth-like planets.
(D) be a matter-antimatter pair.
(E) cool down to become a double planet.
Correct answer: (A)
Student responses
Section 70178
(A) : 16 students
(B) : 4 students
(C) : 3 students
(D) : 1 student
(E) : 0 students
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