A) 1985 B) 1995 C) 1990 D) 2000
A) ISRO B) NASA C) ESA D) Roscosmos
A) Infrared B) Reflecting C) Refracting D) Radio
A) Antennas B) Control module C) Primary mirror D) Solar panels
A) Power failure B) Cracks in the mirror C) Lost contact with Earth D) Spherical aberration
A) Goddard Space Flight Center B) Kennedy Space Center C) Johnson Space Center D) Ames Research Center
A) 5 meters B) 2.4 meters C) 1 meter D) 3 meters
A) Isaac Newton B) Albert Einstein C) Edwin Hubble D) Galileo Galilei
A) Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) B) X-ray optics C) Digital imaging D) Laser technology
A) Infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray B) Visible light only C) Ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared D) Microwave and radio waves
A) STS-135 in 2011 B) STS-61 in 1993 C) STS-125 in 2009 D) STS-31 in 1990
A) Five B) Three C) Seven D) Six
A) Hermann Oberth B) Edwin Hubble C) Nancy Grace Roman D) Lyman Spitzer
A) Ground-based telescopes have better angular resolution. B) Space telescopes can observe only visible light. C) Space telescopes cannot observe infrared and ultraviolet light. D) Limitations on resolution due to atmospheric turbulence are eliminated.
A) 1962 B) 1946 C) 1975 D) 1983
A) Hermann Oberth B) Edwin Hubble C) Lyman Spitzer D) Nancy Grace Roman
A) 1990 B) 1983 C) 1979 D) 2001
A) Gamma-ray observations of black holes. B) X-ray imaging of the Moon. C) Microwave studies of cosmic microwave background radiation. D) Ultraviolet observations of stars and galaxies from 1968 to 1972.
A) The OAO program B) The ESA program C) The LST program D) The Hubble program
A) 1983 B) 1974 C) 1977 D) 1970
A) $100 million B) $36 million C) No funding was approved. D) $5 million
A) 1974 B) 1978 C) 1983 D) 1990
A) The structure of DNA. B) The universe is expanding. C) The theory of relativity. D) The existence of black holes.
A) At least 15% B) 25% C) 50% D) 10%
A) Goddard Space Flight Center B) Perkin-Elmer C) Lockheed D) Kodak
A) 500 nanometers B) 1 micrometer C) 10 nanometers D) 100 nanometers
A) Kodak B) Lockheed C) Perkin-Elmer D) Itek
A) 50 mm B) 25 mm C) 10 mm D) 5 mm
A) April 1985 B) September 1986 C) March 1986 D) October 1984
A) 25 nm B) 65 nm C) 100 nm D) 50 nm
A) Magnesium fluoride B) Aluminum oxide C) Silicon dioxide D) Titanium nitride
A) $900 million B) $750 million C) $1.175 billion D) $1.5 billion
A) March 1986 B) October 1984 C) September 1986 D) April 1985
A) Carbon fiber B) Graphite-epoxy C) Titanium alloy D) Aluminum
A) A nitrogen gas purge before launch B) Water-absorbing materials were used. C) The telescope was coated with an anti-ice material. D) Heating elements were installed in the instruments.
A) A new cooling system. B) Enhanced communication hardware. C) Additional memory modules. D) An Intel-based 80386 processor with an 80387 math co-processor
A) RCA 1802 microprocessor. B) Intel 80386 processor. C) Hughes Aircraft CDP1802CD D) Westinghouse NSSC-1.
A) European Space Agency B) Goddard Space Flight Center C) NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory D) University of Wisconsin–Madison
A) Visible light photometry B) High-resolution optical imaging C) Infrared observations D) Ultraviolet spectroscopy
A) Sixteen B) Four C) Eight D) Twelve
A) Solid state data storage B) Reel-to-reel tape drives C) Flash memory D) Optical discs
A) They are unaffected by vacuum conditions. B) They degrade rapidly due to radiation. C) They require frequent replacement. D) They can have surprisingly long lifetimes.
A) Bright green B) Vivid yellow C) Deep red D) Dark blue
A) Pluto B) Sedna C) Eris D) 486958 Arrokoth
A) Gyroscopes B) High Speed Photometer C) Solar arrays D) WF/PC
A) COSTAR B) NICMOS C) ACS D) STIS
A) Ultraviolet imaging B) Radio wave detection C) X-ray observation D) Gravitational lensing
A) Dark energy B) Cosmic radiation C) Quantum flux D) Dunkle Materie
A) NASA administrators B) Any astronomer C) The principal investigator (PI) D) The director of STScI
A) Image enhancement B) Data compression C) Pipeline reduction D) Manual calibration
A) Seven B) Ten C) Three D) Five
A) The telescope was recalibrated using ground-based observations. B) They used additional lenses to correct the images. C) Sophisticated image processing techniques such as deconvolution. D) Astronomers manually adjusted each image.
A) Twenty B) A dozen C) Five D) Two
A) December 31, 1993 B) February 14, 1994 C) January 13, 1994 D) March 1, 1994
A) About 10,000 B) Approximately 15,000 C) Nearly 30,000 D) Over 22,000
A) New thermal insulation blankets. B) Heat sink of solid nitrogen. C) Voltage/temperature Improvement Kit (VIK). D) Solid State Recorder.
A) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) B) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) C) High Speed Photometer (HSP) D) Faint Object Camera (FOC)
A) Dornier museum, Germany B) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum C) Space Place at the University of Wisconsin–Madison D) NASA's Johnson Space Center
A) 350 kilometers (217 mi) B) 1000 kilometers (621 mi) C) 700 kilometers (435 mi) D) 540 kilometers (340 mi)
A) 96 B) 24 C) 12 D) 48
A) The custom-built reflective null corrector. B) Manual measurements. C) Computer simulations. D) Conventional refractive null correctors.
A) James Webb Space Telescope B) Chandra X-ray Observatory C) Spitzer Space Telescope D) Kepler Space Telescope
A) Neil Armstrong B) Yuri Gagarin C) Buzz Aldrin D) Story Musgrave
A) Delays in manufacturing parts B) Budget cuts in NASA funding C) Technical issues with the telescope D) The Challenger disaster
A) "Transition Comets – UV Search for OH" B) Observation of exoplanets C) Study of black holes D) Analysis of Earth's climate
A) An Earth-like planet in the habitable zone B) The farthest confirmed galaxy, GN-z11 C) A new solar system within our galaxy D) A new type of black hole
A) Photomultiplier tubes B) Infrared sensors C) Photon-counting digicons D) Charge-coupled devices (CCDs)
A) 1000 orbits. B) 195 orbits. C) 828 orbits. D) 500 orbits.
A) Spectroscopy B) Aperture masking interferometry C) X-ray imaging D) Radio astronomy
A) Within 1 arcsecond B) Within 0.01 arcseconds C) Within 0.001 arcseconds D) Within 0.0003 arcseconds
A) STS-26 B) STS-31 C) STS-28 D) STS-41-C
A) 70° B) 90° C) 30° D) About 50°
A) Neil Armstrong B) Lew Allen C) Edwin Hubble D) Carl Sagan
A) The same as other known comets B) Fifty times the mass C) Ten times the mass D) Twice the mass
A) Less than 50 B) More than 200 C) About 500 D) Exactly 100
A) The mirror was not polished enough. B) The telescope's software was faulty. C) The mirror was made of incorrect material. D) A reflective null corrector had been incorrectly assembled.
A) Proto-planetary disks (proplyds) B) Black holes C) Quasars D) Dark matter
A) 90% B) 100% C) 75% D) 50%
A) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph B) Fine Guidance Sensor C) Faint Object Camera (FOC) D) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
A) No specific allocation B) Half of the telescope's time C) The entire cycle D) Only a few hours
A) Six months B) Twelve months C) Immediately upon collection D) Twenty-four months
A) Sirius B) Earendel C) Rigel D) Betelgeuse
A) Post-processing with artificial intelligence B) Combining separate monochrome images through different filters C) Using a single wide-spectrum filter D) Direct color imaging sensors
A) Observations of young stars B) The first statistically meaningful morphological characterization C) Ultraviolet imaging D) Data on outer planets' atmospheres
A) Replaced its main mirror. B) Installed new solar arrays. C) Installed a closed-cycle cooler. D) Upgraded its data-handling unit.
A) -1.00230 B) -1.01390±0.0002 C) -0.90000 D) -1.50000
A) The early 2000s B) The mid-1990s C) The early 1980s D) The late 1970s
A) 500 orbits. B) 195 orbits. C) 828 orbits. D) 1000 orbits.
A) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) B) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) C) High Speed Photometer (HSP) D) Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS)
A) NASA decided to launch the James Webb Space Telescope earlier. B) Servicing Mission 4 was postponed indefinitely. C) It led to immediate repairs being made to Hubble. D) Future crewed service missions were canceled.
A) FITS format B) JPEG format C) PNG format D) TIFF format
A) Sombrero Galaxy B) Whirlpool Galaxy C) Andromeda Galaxy D) MACS 2129-1
A) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph B) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) C) Wide Field Camera 3 D) Fine Guidance Sensor
A) Columbia B) Endeavour C) Discovery D) Atlantis
A) Biannually B) Monthly C) Roughly annually D) Every two years
A) 2006 B) 2010 C) 2020 D) 1998
A) Eliminating the need for ground software B) Swapping out a possibly failure-prone battery C) Reducing the telescope's size D) Replacing all instruments
A) Callisto B) Io C) Europa D) Ganymede
A) 2019 B) 2022 C) 2015 D) 2018
A) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) B) Fine Guidance Sensors C) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph D) Advanced Camera for Surveys |