According to the density-wave theory, spiral arms are blue because they
A. contain only young stars, whose formation was triggered by the explosion of older red stars just in front of the spiral arm.
B. contain a lot of young stars formed from clouds compressed by the density wave.
C. have too much metal content to form red stars.
D. contain many reflection nebulae from sites of young star formation.
Answer: B
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