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A Tremendous View On Hubble Space Telescope

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1 Question
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Which space shuttle first deployed the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990?

Columbia

Discovery

Endeavour

Atlantis
2 Question
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How many gyroscopes are there in Hubble?

Two

Three

Six

Nine
3 Question
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Hubble was initially found to have what flaw upon its activation in space?

One of the gyroscopes was inoperative.

The solar arrays would not fully deploy.

The primary mirror was incorrectly shaped.

Charged particles from the Van Allen radiation belt were interring with the magnetometers.
4 Question
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There were how many servicing missions to Hubble?

Three

Four

 Five

 Six
5 Question
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About how many galaxies are visible in the extreme deep field image?

2,500

5,500

7,500

 10,500
6 Question
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Which astronaut did not fly on the Hubble servicing mission?

 John Grunsfeld

 Charles Bolden

Story Musgrave

Clayton Anderson
7 Question
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State true or false. Hubble captures images in black and white.

True

False
8 Question
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Hubble's 30th-anniversary image is colloquially referred to as what?

The Cosmic Reef

The Medusa Merger

Orion's Little Brother

The Witch Broom's Nebula
9 Question
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Hubble is the visible light telescope in ___________.

NASA's Great Observatories program

European Space Agency

 Goddard Space Flight Center 

Space Telescope Science Institute 
10 Question
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The mid-IR-to-visible band successor to the Hubble telescope is the ___________.

 Orbiting solar telescope

Spitzer Space Telescope 

 Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope