What is the primary purpose of a telescope?
A) To magnify distant objects
B) To measure temperature
C) To calculate distances
D) To analyze sound waves
Which type of telescope uses lenses to gather and focus light?
A) Reflecting telescope
B) Refracting telescope
C) Radio telescope
D) X-ray telescope
What is the main component of a reflecting telescope?
A) A convex lens
B) A concave mirror
C) A prism
D) A radio dish
Which telescope is famous for its stunning images of deep space?
A) Spitzer Space Telescope
B) Chandra X-ray Observatory
C) Hubble Space Telescope
D) Kepler Space Telescope
Which space telescope is designed to observe infrared radiation?
A) Hubble Space Telescope
B) Spitzer Space Telescope
C) Kepler Space Telescope
D) James Webb Space Telescope
What is the main advantage of placing telescopes in space?
A) They are closer to the stars
B) They avoid atmospheric interference
C) They can be larger than ground-based telescopes
D) They use less energy
Which telescope helped discover thousands of exoplanets?
A) Hubble Space Telescope
B) Kepler Space Telescope
C) Chandra X-ray Observatory
D) Very Large Telescope (VLT)
Which type of telescope detects radio waves from space?
A) Optical telescope
B) Infrared telescope
C) Radio telescope
D) X-ray telescope
Which famous radio telescope collapsed in 2020?
A) Green Bank Telescope
B) Arecibo Observatory
C) FAST Telescope
D) Lovell Telescope
Which space observatory studies X-ray emissions from cosmic objects?
A) Hubble Space Telescope
B) Chandra X-ray Observatory
C) James Webb Space Telescope
D) ALMA Observatory
What is the world’s largest single-dish radio telescope?
A) Arecibo Observatory
B) Green Bank Telescope
C) FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope)
D) Parkes Radio Telescope
Which type of telescope is best for observing distant galaxies?
A) X-ray telescope
B) Infrared telescope
C) Optical telescope
D) Ultraviolet telescope
Which space telescope is considered the successor to Hubble?
A) Kepler Space Telescope
B) Spitzer Space Telescope
C) James Webb Space Telescope
D) Chandra X-ray Observatory
What does an interferometer telescope do?
A) Detects sound waves in space
B) Combines signals from multiple telescopes for higher resolution
C) Observes the Sun’s surface
D) Measures Earth’s magnetic field
Which observatory studies the Sun in detail?
A) SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory)
B) ALMA
C) Kepler Space Telescope
D) Chandra X-ray Observatory
What is the main limitation of ground-based optical telescopes?
A) They are too expensive
B) Atmospheric distortion affects images
C) They cannot detect radio waves
D) They cannot be used at night
Which telescope is designed to detect gravitational waves?
A) Chandra X-ray Observatory
B) Event Horizon Telescope
C) LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
D) Very Large Telescope
Which telescope provided the first image of a black hole?
A) Chandra X-ray Observatory
B) Event Horizon Telescope
C) Hubble Space Telescope
D) Kepler Space Telescope
What is the purpose of adaptive optics in telescopes?
A) To increase the size of the telescope
B) To correct for atmospheric distortion
C) To observe the Sun safely
D) To detect radio signals
Which type of telescope is best for detecting black holes?
A) Optical telescope
B) X-ray telescope
C) Radio telescope
D) Infrared telescope
Which telescope is located at the highest altitude on Earth?
A) Very Large Telescope
B) ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter Array)
C) Hubble Space Telescope
D) Gran Telescopio Canarias
What does ALMA primarily study?
A) Visible light from stars
B) Radio waves from space
C) Infrared radiation
D) Gamma rays
What is the main reason space telescopes produce clearer images than ground-based telescopes?
A) They are closer to the objects they observe
B) They do not experience atmospheric interference
C) They use more powerful lenses
D) They are larger in size
Which telescope is known for discovering many pulsars?
A) Chandra X-ray Observatory
B) Hubble Space Telescope
C) Arecibo Observatory
D) Spitzer Space Telescope
What is the name of NASA’s planned next-generation space telescope after James Webb?
A) Habitable Worlds Observatory
B) Roman Space Telescope
C) TESS
D) Event Horizon Telescope
Which telescope specializes in observing exoplanet atmospheres?
A) Kepler Space Telescope
B) Hubble Space Telescope
C) James Webb Space Telescope
D) SOHO
Which instrument is used in telescopes to split light into its component wavelengths?
A) Spectrometer
B) Photometer
C) Magnetometer
D) Barometer
What is the primary advantage of a radio telescope?
A) It can observe space during the day and night
B) It can only detect visible light
C) It is immune to interference from Earth’s atmosphere
D) It works best in space
Which space observatory is designed to study cosmic microwave background radiation?
A) Spitzer Space Telescope
B) Hubble Space Telescope
C) Planck Observatory
D) Kepler Space Telescope
