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