Multiple Choice
The time interval from seeing the bright star Regulus rise over the eastern horizon until it rises again the following evening is
A) a solar day.
B) a sidereal day.
C) neither a solar day nor a sidereal day.
D) both a solar day and a sidereal day because these are the same for objects other than the Sun.
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