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