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In the 1980's, astronomer Bohdan Paczynski proposed a way of determining whether the enormous 极大的 dark halo constituting the outermost 最外层的part of the Milky Way galaxy 星系 is composed of MACHO's (massive 巨大的compact halo 光环objects 实物), which are astronomical objects too dim to be visible.TSPaczynski reasoned that if MACHO's make up this halo, a MACHO would occasionally drift in front of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a bright galaxy near the Milky Way.The gravity of a MACHO that had so drifted, astronomers agree, would cause the star's light rays, which would otherwise diverge 分叉 to bend together so that, as observed from Earth, the star would temporarily appear to brighten, a process known as microlensing.Because many individual stars are of intrinsically 本质的 variable brightness, some astronomers have contended 声称that the brightening of intrinsically variable stars can be mistaken for microlensing.However, whereas the different colors of light emitted by an intrinsically variable star are affected differently when the star brightens, all of a star's colors are equally affected by microlensing.Thus, if a MACHO magnifies 放大 a star's red light tenfold, it will do the same to the star's blue light and yellow light.Moreover, it is highly unlikely that a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud will undergo microlensing more than once, because the chance that a second MACHO would pass in front of exactly the same star is minuscule 微小的.

Question #55.639-01(23881-!-item-!-188;#058&000639-01)

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would constitute the strongest evidence of the microlensing of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud?

(A) The brightness of such a star is observed to vary at irregular intervals.

(B) The brightening of such a star is observed to be of shorter duration than the brightening of neighboring stars.

(C) The red light of such a star is observed to be brighter than its yellow light and its blue light.

(D) The red light, yellow light, and blue light of such a star are observed to be magnified temporarily by the same factor.

(E) The red light of such a star is observed to have increased tenfold.

这道题我选的是A，正确答案为D.请问各位牛人，D是怎么选出来的啊？里面的BULE LIGHT文中有提到吗？

It can be inferred from the passage that which of the following would constitute the strongest evidence of the microlensing of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud?

(A) The brightness of such a star is observed to vary at irregular intervals.

(B) The brightening of such a star is observed to be of shorter duration than the brightening of neighboring stars.

(C) The red light of such a star is observed to be brighter than its yellow light and its blue light.

(D) The red light, yellow light, and blue light of such a star are observed to be magnified temporarily by the same factor.

(E) The red light of such a star is observed to have increased tenfold.

这道题我选的是A，正确答案为D.请问各位牛人，D是怎么选出来的啊？里面的BULE LIGHT文中有提到吗？