Space Telescopes and Their Discoveries
- 1. Which space telescope was launched by NASA in 1990 and has provided stunning images of distant galaxies and nebulae?
A) Hubble Space Telescope
B) James Webb Space Telescope
C) Spitzer Space Telescope
D) Chandra X-ray Observatory
- 2. What is the name of the European Space Agency's space observatory that studies cosmic microwave background radiation?
A) Kepler
B) Europa
C) Planck
D) Gaia
- 3. Which space telescope discovered seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1 in 2017?
A) Hubble Space Telescope
B) Chandra X-ray Observatory
C) James Webb Space Telescope
D) Spitzer Space Telescope
- 4. What type of radiation does the Chandra X-ray Observatory primarily observe?
A) Visible light
B) Infrared radiation
C) Ultraviolet light
D) X-rays
- 5. In which wavelength range does the James Webb Space Telescope primarily operate?
A) X-rays
B) Ultraviolet
C) Radio waves
D) Infrared
- 6. Which space telescope was specifically designed to detect and study gamma rays in space?
A) Kepler Space Telescope
B) Hubble Space Telescope
C) Euclid Space Telescope
D) Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- 7. What is the name of the first space telescope launched by the European Space Agency in 2009?
A) Euclid Space Telescope
B) Herschel Space Observatory
C) Rosetta Space Telescope
D) Gaia Space Telescope
- 8. What is the name of the first space telescope dedicated to studying black holes and neutron stars?
A) Spitzer Space Telescope
B) James Webb Space Telescope
C) Chandra X-ray Observatory
D) Hubble Space Telescope
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