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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
You misread option E. E deals with quasars that ARE SEEN from Earth

C is bad. Moon appears from Earth much brighter than any quasar but it does not shine like billions of suns. The distances do matter
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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
E is my choice too.

C provides information from only one premise while, E concludes the whole paragraph.
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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
Nope. The ans should be D. Here is the logic

Presume that the light of a quasars seen from the Earth is the quasars's first light. The quasars can't last more than 100 millions years. Hence, the light of it can't be seen for any longer than 100 millions years. So D is the ans.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
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Nope. The ans should be D. Here is the logic

Presume that the light of a quasars seen from the Earth is the quasars's first light. The quasars can't last more than 100 millions years. Hence, the light of it can't be seen for any longer than 100 millions years. So D is the ans.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.


Choice D says nothing about the distant obect. D doesn't say that this object is visible from Earth nor that it emits any light at all
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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
Hey, there's something Pro.Stephan Hawking can help here.

The distance and the time for the light of quasars to reach the Earth is nothing here. It takes 500 millions years for the light to reach the Earth. When the quasars dies, its light still on the way to the Earth and the light can be seen for at most 100 millions years.
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bigtooth81 wrote:
Hey, there's something Pro.Stephan Hawking can help here.

The distance and the time for the light of quasars to reach the Earth is nothing here. It takes 500 millions years for the light to reach the Earth. When the quasars dies, its light still on the way to the Earth and the light can be seen for at most 100 millions years.


This logic supports choice E rather than D
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Waaaawwwww, I misread D, it is clearly too extreme. Yeah, E is the correct ans. Thank you OlegC.
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Re: Quasars---celestial objects so far away that their light [#permalink]
thank you.

the OA is (E)



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