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