Astronomy current events question: distance to star-forming region G007.47+00.05

Astronomy 210L, fall semester 2017
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!)

Bill Saxton, "The Far Side of the Milky Way" (October 12, 2017)
mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2017/9

Parallax measurements made by the Very Long Baseline Antenna determined the distance to __________ on the other side of our Milky Way galaxy. (A) the Large Magellanic Cloud.
(B) a black hole.
(C) a sun-like solar system.
(D) colliding neutron stars.
(E) a star-forming region.

Correct answer: (E)

Student responses
Sections 70178, 70186
(A) : 3 students
(B) : 3 students
(C) : 7 students
(D) : 7 student
(E) : 26 students