Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Space Telescope
Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Space Telescope
This June 2023 image provided by the Space Telescope Science Institute shows the planet Saturn and three of its moons, from left, Enceladus, Tethys and Dione, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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When was the first space telescope launched?
Uhuru (X-ray Explorer Satellite)
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2)
Constellation-X Observatory
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
The first space telescope that was launched was Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2). It was launched into space on the 7th of December 1968, where it remained for 1 month.
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Which is the most powerful telescope ever launched into space?
Hubble telescope
Herschel Space Observatory
Chandra X-ray Observatory
James Webb Space telescope
The Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful and most complex telescope ever launched into space. Webb’s primary mirror consists of 18 hexagonal mirror segments made of gold-plated beryllium, which together create a 6.5-meter-diameter mirror.
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What was the objective of the Kepler space telescope?
To hunt for other planets
To study microwave radiation
To study dark matter
To study the Solar system
The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for Earth-sized planets orbiting stars outside our solar system.
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Launched in 1989, this was one of the first space telescopes to study cosmic microwave background radiation. What was its name?
IBEX
Spitzer space telescope
Proton 2
Cosmic Background Explorer
NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) was a mission that measured and mapped the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, the oldest light in the universe. The mission provided key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
