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