题目选项分析

Which of the following most logically completes the argument?

A photograph of the night sky was taken with the camera shutter open for an extended period. The normal motion of stars across the sky caused the images of the stars in the photograph to appear as streaks. However, one bright spot was not streaked.Even if the spot were caused, as astronomers believe,by a celestial object, that object could still have been moving across the sky during the time the shutter was open, since__________.

【选项】if the camera shutter had not been open for an extended period, it would have recorded substantially fewer celestial objects