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Which statement about gamma ray bursters is NOT correct?
 
  A) Millisecond flickering implies they are tiny in size.
  B) In seconds, they radiate enormous amounts of energy.
  C) They seem to be coming from far beyond our own Milky Way.
  D) They are scaled up X-ray bursters, with more massive objects involved.
  E) The beams may be bipolar ejections from the hypernova formation of black holes.

Question 2

All the following types of objects are found almost exclusively in the disk (rather than the halo) of the Milky Way except ________.
 
  A) X-ray binaries B) high-mass, red supergiant stars
  C) young stars D) globular clusters



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