A) 1985 B) 2000 C) 1990 D) 1995
A) NASA B) ISRO C) ESA D) Roscosmos
A) Refracting B) Reflecting C) Radio D) Infrared
A) Antennas B) Solar panels C) Control module D) Primary mirror
A) Spherical aberration B) Power failure C) Cracks in the mirror D) Lost contact with Earth
A) Ames Research Center B) Goddard Space Flight Center C) Kennedy Space Center D) Johnson Space Center
A) 5 meters B) 2.4 meters C) 1 meter D) 3 meters
A) Galileo Galilei B) Albert Einstein C) Edwin Hubble D) Isaac Newton
A) Digital imaging B) Laser technology C) X-ray optics D) Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR)
A) Visible light only B) Ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared C) Microwave and radio waves D) Infrared, X-ray, and gamma-ray
A) STS-125 in 2009 B) STS-31 in 1990 C) STS-61 in 1993 D) STS-135 in 2011
A) Six B) Seven C) Five D) Three
A) Edwin Hubble B) Hermann Oberth C) Nancy Grace Roman D) Lyman Spitzer
A) Ground-based telescopes have better angular resolution. B) Space telescopes cannot observe infrared and ultraviolet light. C) Space telescopes can observe only visible light. D) Limitations on resolution due to atmospheric turbulence are eliminated.
A) 1983 B) 1962 C) 1975 D) 1946
A) Nancy Grace Roman B) Lyman Spitzer C) Hermann Oberth D) Edwin Hubble
A) 1983 B) 1990 C) 1979 D) 2001
A) Microwave studies of cosmic microwave background radiation. B) Gamma-ray observations of black holes. C) Ultraviolet observations of stars and galaxies from 1968 to 1972. D) X-ray imaging of the Moon.
A) The OAO program B) The LST program C) The Hubble program D) The ESA program
A) 1974 B) 1977 C) 1983 D) 1970
A) $5 million B) $100 million C) $36 million D) No funding was approved.
A) 1990 B) 1983 C) 1974 D) 1978
A) The universe is expanding. B) The theory of relativity. C) The existence of black holes. D) The structure of DNA.
A) 50% B) At least 15% C) 10% D) 25%
A) Perkin-Elmer B) Goddard Space Flight Center C) Kodak D) Lockheed
A) 500 nanometers B) 100 nanometers C) 1 micrometer D) 10 nanometers
A) Perkin-Elmer B) Kodak C) Lockheed D) Itek
A) 5 mm B) 25 mm C) 10 mm D) 50 mm
A) September 1986 B) April 1985 C) March 1986 D) October 1984
A) 50 nm B) 65 nm C) 25 nm D) 100 nm
A) Aluminum oxide B) Magnesium fluoride C) Silicon dioxide D) Titanium nitride
A) $1.175 billion B) $1.5 billion C) $900 million D) $750 million
A) April 1985 B) March 1986 C) September 1986 D) October 1984
A) Graphite-epoxy B) Titanium alloy C) Carbon fiber D) Aluminum
A) The telescope was coated with an anti-ice material. B) Water-absorbing materials were used. C) Heating elements were installed in the instruments. D) A nitrogen gas purge before launch
A) A new cooling system. B) Enhanced communication hardware. C) An Intel-based 80386 processor with an 80387 math co-processor D) Additional memory modules.
A) Intel 80386 processor. B) RCA 1802 microprocessor. C) Hughes Aircraft CDP1802CD D) Westinghouse NSSC-1.
A) NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory B) Goddard Space Flight Center C) University of Wisconsin–Madison D) European Space Agency
A) High-resolution optical imaging B) Infrared observations C) Ultraviolet spectroscopy D) Visible light photometry
A) Eight B) Twelve C) Four D) Sixteen
A) Reel-to-reel tape drives B) Flash memory C) Solid state data storage D) Optical discs
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) Vivid yellow B) Dark blue C) Deep red D) Bright green
A) 486958 Arrokoth B) Pluto C) Eris D) Sedna
A) WF/PC B) Gyroscopes C) Solar arrays D) High Speed Photometer
A) COSTAR B) STIS C) NICMOS D) ACS
A) Gravitational lensing B) Ultraviolet imaging C) X-ray observation D) Radio wave detection
A) Cosmic radiation B) Dark energy C) Quantum flux D) Dunkle Materie
A) The director of STScI B) Any astronomer C) The principal investigator (PI) D) NASA administrators
A) Manual calibration B) Image enhancement C) Pipeline reduction D) Data compression
A) Seven B) Three C) Five D) Ten
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) Twenty B) Two C) Five D) A dozen
A) January 13, 1994 B) March 1, 1994 C) December 31, 1993 D) February 14, 1994
A) About 10,000 B) Nearly 30,000 C) Over 22,000 D) Approximately 15,000
A) Heat sink of solid nitrogen. B) Solid State Recorder. C) New thermal insulation blankets. D) Voltage/temperature Improvement Kit (VIK).
A) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) B) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) C) Faint Object Camera (FOC) D) High Speed Photometer (HSP)
A) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum B) Space Place at the University of Wisconsin–Madison C) Dornier museum, Germany D) NASA's Johnson Space Center
A) 700 kilometers (435 mi) B) 350 kilometers (217 mi) C) 540 kilometers (340 mi) D) 1000 kilometers (621 mi)
A) 12 B) 96 C) 24 D) 48
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) Story Musgrave B) Neil Armstrong C) Buzz Aldrin D) Yuri Gagarin
A) Technical issues with the telescope B) Budget cuts in NASA funding C) The Challenger disaster D) Delays in manufacturing parts
A) "Transition Comets – UV Search for OH" B) Study of black holes C) Observation of exoplanets D) Analysis of Earth's climate
A) A new type of black hole B) An Earth-like planet in the habitable zone C) The farthest confirmed galaxy, GN-z11 D) A new solar system within our galaxy
A) Photon-counting digicons B) Infrared sensors C) Charge-coupled devices (CCDs) D) Photomultiplier tubes
A) 500 orbits. B) 195 orbits. C) 1000 orbits. D) 828 orbits.
A) Aperture masking interferometry B) X-ray imaging C) Radio astronomy D) Spectroscopy
A) Within 1 arcsecond B) Within 0.0003 arcseconds C) Within 0.001 arcseconds D) Within 0.01 arcseconds
A) STS-26 B) STS-28 C) STS-41-C D) STS-31
A) 30° B) 90° C) About 50° D) 70°
A) Lew Allen B) Carl Sagan C) Edwin Hubble 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) Exactly 100 C) More than 200 D) Less than 50
A) The mirror was not polished enough. B) The telescope's software was faulty. C) A reflective null corrector had been incorrectly assembled. D) The mirror was made of incorrect material.
A) Quasars B) Dark matter C) Proto-planetary disks (proplyds) D) Black holes
A) 50% B) 75% C) 100% D) 90%
A) Fine Guidance Sensor B) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph C) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph D) Faint Object Camera (FOC)
A) No specific allocation B) The entire cycle C) Half of the telescope's time D) Only a few hours
A) Six months B) Immediately upon collection C) Twelve months D) Twenty-four months
A) Rigel B) Sirius C) Betelgeuse D) Earendel
A) Using a single wide-spectrum filter B) Post-processing with artificial intelligence C) Direct color imaging sensors D) Combining separate monochrome images through different filters
A) Data on outer planets' atmospheres B) The first statistically meaningful morphological characterization C) Observations of young stars D) Ultraviolet imaging
A) Replaced its main mirror. B) Upgraded its data-handling unit. C) Installed new solar arrays. D) Installed a closed-cycle cooler.
A) -1.01390±0.0002 B) -1.00230 C) -0.90000 D) -1.50000
A) The early 2000s B) The late 1970s C) The mid-1990s D) The early 1980s
A) 1000 orbits. B) 500 orbits. C) 195 orbits. D) 828 orbits.
A) Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WF/PC) B) High Speed Photometer (HSP) C) Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) D) Fine Guidance Sensors (FGS)
A) Future crewed service missions were canceled. B) NASA decided to launch the James Webb Space Telescope earlier. C) Servicing Mission 4 was postponed indefinitely. D) It led to immediate repairs being made to Hubble.
A) PNG format B) TIFF format C) FITS format D) JPEG format
A) MACS 2129-1 B) Sombrero Galaxy C) Andromeda Galaxy D) Whirlpool Galaxy
A) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) B) Wide Field Camera 3 C) Fine Guidance Sensor D) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
A) Columbia B) Discovery C) Endeavour D) Atlantis
A) Roughly annually B) Monthly C) Every two years D) Biannually
A) 2020 B) 2006 C) 1998 D) 2010
A) Reducing the telescope's size B) Eliminating the need for ground software C) Replacing all instruments D) Swapping out a possibly failure-prone battery
A) Europa B) Io C) Ganymede D) Callisto
A) 2018 B) 2022 C) 2019 D) 2015
A) Fine Guidance Sensors B) Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) C) Advanced Camera for Surveys D) Cosmic Origins Spectrograph |