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