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