QUESTION 3 :   The Halo of our galaxy is made up of

a) a flattened distribution of gas and dust, where star formation is still occurring.

b) fairly old stars which lie close to the center of the galaxy in a flattened sphere.

c) a black hole with a mass 1 million times that of our Sun.

d) the oldest stars in our galaxy, extending in a sphere 100,000 or more light years in diameter.

e) very massive stars, believed to constitute the dark matter in our galaxy.


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