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I Section 4<br />

Practice Test Twelve<br />

Questions 16-17 are based on <strong>the</strong> following passage.<br />

The Hubble Heritage Project, a team of astronomers<br />

who assemble and publish many of <strong>the</strong><br />

NASA Hubble Space Telescope's pictures, recently<br />

Line celebrated <strong>the</strong> five-year anniversary of <strong>the</strong> project<br />

(5) by releasing an image of <strong>the</strong> Sombrero, a massive<br />

galaxy situated 28 million light-years from<br />

Earth on <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn edge of Virgo. Named<br />

<strong>the</strong> Sombrero because it resembles <strong>the</strong> broadbrimmed<br />

Mexican hat, <strong>the</strong> galaxy has a halo<br />

( 10) of stars that contains approximately 2,000 star<br />

clusters, ten times <strong>the</strong> number that compose <strong>the</strong><br />

Milky Way. To create one of <strong>the</strong> largest Hubble<br />

composite images ever produced, <strong>the</strong> Heritage<br />

team took six pictures of <strong>the</strong> Sombrero, <strong>the</strong>n<br />

(15) pieced <strong>the</strong>m toge<strong>the</strong>r to create <strong>the</strong> final mosaic.<br />

16. According to <strong>the</strong> passage, <strong>the</strong> image of <strong>the</strong><br />

Sombrero galaxy<br />

(A) is <strong>the</strong> first of its kind<br />

(B) was released to illustrate <strong>the</strong> capacity of <strong>the</strong><br />

Hubble telescope<br />

( C) is ten times larger than available images of<br />

<strong>the</strong> Milky Way<br />

(D) is made up of several smaller images<br />

(E) was a cause <strong>for</strong> celebration in <strong>the</strong> scientific<br />

community<br />

17. All of <strong>the</strong> following statements about <strong>the</strong> Sombrero<br />

are true, EXCEPT<br />

(A) it is 28 million light-years from Earth<br />

(B) it has more star clusters than <strong>the</strong> Milky Way<br />

(C) it resembles a Mexican hat<br />

(D) it is a huge galaxy<br />

(E) it was discovered approximately five<br />

years ago<br />

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