Question

The fraction of galaxies described by this adjective in galaxy clusters increases alongside another variable in the Butcher-Oemler Effect. This adjective describes the star Sanduleak -69 202 in a 1987 Nature paper that described that star unusually being a progenitor for a supernova. This adjective names a “loop” that intermediate-mass stars may undergo when they begin burning helium. This adjective describes anomalously young stars in globular clusters like M53, which are called (*) “stragglers” described by this adjective. Visible light is subtracted from light named for this adjective in a common index used on the x-axis of observational H-R diagrams. Along with white, this color describes the color of type-O stars and the star Rigel, (-5[1])which all have low values for color index. (-5[1])Light’s wavelength [emphasize] decreases, and thus energy increases, in this color’s namesake “shift.” (-5[1])For 10 points, what color titles a Voyager 1 photo of Earth as a “pale dot?” ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: blue [accept Pale Blue Dot; accept blueshift; accept whitish-blue or bluish-white; accept blue light; accept blue stragglers or blue straggler stars; accept blue supergiant; accept blue loop; accept blue galaxy fraction; accept “Explosion of a blue supergiant: a model for supernova SN1987A”; prompt on B; prompt on B minus V; prompt on supergiant by asking “what other adjective describes that star?”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Shreya IyerGeorgetownMaryland B113-5
Ethan CohenGeorge Washington AGeorge Washington B121-5
Connor MayersMaryland AJohns Hopkins134-5
Eva LettiereGeorge Washington BGeorge Washington A15110
Daniel KimMaryland BGeorgetown15110
Max NieburJohns HopkinsMaryland A15110

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2023 ARCADIA at DukeEmory, Duke, YaleY4100%0%50%131.75
2023 ARCADIA at EmoryEmory, Duke, YaleY4100%0%50%112.50
2023 ARCADIA at ImperialImperialY5100%0%0%96.80
2023 ARCADIA at MarylandMaryland, OnlineY3100%0%100%151.00
2023 ARCADIA OnlineMaryland, OnlineY3100%0%33%92.00
2023 ARCADIA at TexasOhio State, TexasY3100%33%0%79.00
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio StateOhio State, TexasY3100%0%0%113.67