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