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What is the definition of an absorption spectra?

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A spectra of light cross by dark lines

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What does the absorption spectra tell us?

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The composition of the star of galaxy gas cloud because different elements absorb light at different wavelengths to produce each dark line

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What info does the absorption spectra give us?

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How far away a galaxy is, the further away from us the faster the galaxy moves, if the dark lines are red shifted

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What is Hubble’s law?

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The further away the star is, the faster it is moving

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What is cosmological red shift?

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The change in wavelength of radiation since it was emitted due to the expansion of the universe

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What are the pros of the Big Bang theory?

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Based on observation and evidence such as CMBR

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What are the cons of the Big Bang theory?

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Don’t know how it stared

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What is evidence for the Big Bang theory?

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Cosmological red shift of spectra from distant stars and galaxies and CMBR

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