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