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