Telescope quizzery

Which century was the telescope invented?

• 17th

• 22nd

• 10th

• 4th

Astronomers are able to see objects because...

• The dust that surrounds them reflects light

• nothing around the emits any light

• objects emit or reflect light

Modern telescopes only require minimal electromagnetic radiation for the purpose of viewing objects in space?

• true

• false

What do astronomers use to capture cold objects?

• ALMA

• Chandra X-ray Observatory

• Radio Telescopes

Which is most likely a Radio Telescope

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• 
• 

It was challenging to get clear images of objects like comes and planets because....

• The image is distorted by radioactive water.

• The temperature of the water vapor causes radiation to expand.

• High Energy Radiation is too heavy to compress an image.

• Low Energy Radiation is absorbed and distorted by water vapor.

By the 1980s small arrays were operating in....

• Canada, Chile and South America

• Alaska, Nebraska, Omaha

• Japan, Europe, The United States

• China, Russia, The United States.

In order to create a zoom out effect the antenna's must be placed

• far apart

• close together

• an equal distance

• In the southern rotation of the telescope.

The Chajnantor plateau is....

• 5000 meters high

• 500 meters high

• As high as Mount Everest's peak.

• 5000 miles from Chile

It would take ____ to transform one of the world's loneliest spots into a busy modern observatory.