Space Telescopes — MCQs

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1. Which was the first major space telescope launched by NASA in 1990?





2. The James Webb Space Telescope observes primarily in which wavelength?





3. Which space telescope was designed to detect exoplanets by transit method?





4. Which space telescope specializes in X-ray astronomy?





5. The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in which year?





6. The Hubble Space Telescope is a collaboration between NASA and:





7. Which space telescope succeeded the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)?





8. The Gaia Space Observatory is designed to study:





9. Which space telescope has provided the deepest images of the universe?





10. Which space telescope mapped the cosmic microwave background?





11. The successor of WMAP for CMB observations was:





12. Which space telescope was retired in 2020 after its gyroscope failed?





13. The Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched in which year?





14. Which telescope is often called the “successor to Hubble”?





15. Which space telescope studied gamma-ray bursts?





16. The Herschel Space Observatory operated in which spectrum?





17. The Kepler mission was primarily dedicated to finding:





18. Which space telescope observed the Sun in detail?





19. The Hubble Space Telescope orbits at approximately:





20. The JWST was launched in which year?





21. The largest space telescope mirror belongs to:





22. Which telescope was placed at the L2 Lagrange point?





23. Which space telescope contributed to the discovery of dark energy?





24. The WISE telescope was dedicated to:





25. The Fermi Space Telescope is specialized in:





26. Which telescope mapped over a billion stars?





27. Which space telescope was launched in 2009 to replace Hipparcos?





28. Which instrument on Hubble studies ultraviolet light?





29. The TESS mission is focused on detecting:





30. The primary mirror of Hubble is:





31. The primary mirror of JWST is:





32. Which telescope discovered thousands of exoplanet candidates?





33. The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) operated for how many years?





34. The Hipparcos mission was dedicated to:





35. Which telescope observed gravitational lensing in detail?





36. Which space telescope produced the Hubble Deep Field images?





37. Which telescope provided insights into black hole X-ray emissions?





38. The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory was launched in which year?





39. Which telescope discovered dark matter distribution using weak lensing?





40. Which mission was the first all-sky infrared survey from space?





41. Which telescope was used to observe pulsars in X-rays?





42. The Hubble’s first major flaw was in its:





43. The flaw in Hubble’s mirror was corrected in:





44. The Ultraviolet space telescope launched by NASA in 1978 was:





45. Which telescope is designed to study reionization and early galaxies?





46. The GALEX mission specialized in:





47. The TESS telescope was launched in which year?





48. Which telescope observed cosmic reionization signatures?





49. Which space telescope operates with liquid helium cooling?





50. The future Roman Space Telescope will focus on:





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