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