ESA - Herschel - Archive

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Corona Australis molecular cloud viewed by Herschel and Planck

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Herschel and Planck views of star formation

06/07/2020 10359 views 192 likes

Ant Nebula

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A space ant fires its lasers

16/05/2018 27558 views 148 likes

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Herschel discovers galaxy merger in the very early Universe

13/11/2017 6414 views 83 likes

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Herschel’s Galactic panorama

22/04/2016 17162 views 181 likes

Herschel’s view of G49

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Threading the Milky Way

28/05/2015 10177 views 106 likes

Proto-cluster candidates

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Herschel and Planck find missing clue to galaxy cluster for…

31/03/2015 22919 views 118 likes

Black-hole wind sweeping away galactic gas

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Black hole winds pull the plug on star formation

25/03/2015 15163 views 90 likes

Violent wind gusting around protostar

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Young sun’s violent history solves meteorite mystery

01/07/2014 8981 views 81 likes

Water-building molecule in Helix Nebula

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New molecules around old stars

17/06/2014 13622 views 84 likes

Herschel survey in infrared and visible

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Herschel completes largest survey of cosmic dust in local U…

18/03/2014 9562 views 69 likes

Artist’s impression of Ceres

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Herschel discovers water vapour around dwarf planet Ceres

22/01/2014 33963 views 155 likes

Deflecting light from the Big Bang

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Herschel helps find elusive signals from the early Universe

01/10/2013 13811 views 97 likes

Herschel last command

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Herschel ends operations as orbiting testbed

17/06/2013 9264 views 67 likes

Massive galaxy merger caught in the act

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Rare merger reveals secrets of galaxy evolution

22/05/2013 17826 views 76 likes

Galactic centre

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Herschel finds hot gas on the menu for Milky Way’s black ho…

07/05/2013 20826 views 94 likes

Herschel and Vela C

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Herschel closes its eyes on the Universe

29/04/2013 18600 views 118 likes

Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact site G

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Herschel links Jupiter’s water to comet impact

23/04/2013 16615 views 68 likes

Herschel’s view of the Horsehead Nebula and surrounds

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Herschel and Hubble see the Horsehead in new light

19/04/2013 23976 views 54 likes

Starburst galaxy

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Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evolut…

17/04/2013 12794 views 61 likes

Dust disc around Kappa Coronae Borealis

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Retired star found with planets and debris disc

09/04/2013 10541 views 42 likes

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Hunting high-mass stars with Herschel

27/03/2013 11376 views 57 likes

Herschel and Rosette Nebula

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Herschel to finish observing soon

05/03/2013 14007 views 57 likes

Cool layer in a Sun-like star

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A cool discovery about the Sun’s next-door twin

20/02/2013 21200 views 61 likes

Weighing the planet-forming disc around a nearby star

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Stars can be late parents

30/01/2013 7298 views 4 likes

Betelgeuse’s enigmatic environment

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Betelgeuse braces for a collision

22/01/2013 55508 views 38 likes

Herschel’s three-colour view of asteroid Apophis

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Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis

09/01/2013 31338 views 79 likes

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Herschel and Keck take census of the invisible Universe

04/12/2012 5638 views 25 likes

Debris disc around GJ 581

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Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts?

28/11/2012 4123 views 11 likes

W44 and its environment

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Life and death in a star-forming cloud

14/11/2012 4194 views 8 likes

Taurus molecular cloud

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Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth

09/10/2012 5032 views 8 likes

Olivine crystals

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Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system

03/10/2012 5057 views 7 likes

Vela C region

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Flying along the Vela ridge

09/07/2012 2523 views 6 likes

Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula

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Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula

04/06/2012 3533 views 5 likes

Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula

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Blowing bubbles in the Carina Nebula

04/06/2012 3325 views 10 likes

Herschel’s swan

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Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight

10/05/2012 4362 views 2 likes

Fomalhaut and dust disc

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Herschel spots comet massacre around nearby star

11/04/2012 4487 views 6 likes

Centaurus A: Far-infrared and X-rays

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The dark heart of a cosmic collision

04/04/2012 3178 views 3 likes

Baby stars in Orion Nebula

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Fledgling stars flicker in the heart of Orion

29/02/2012 4021 views 4 likes

Stunning new Herschel and XMM-Newton image of the Eagle Nebula

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A New View of an Icon

17/01/2012 14377 views 12 likes

Detection of water vapour in the spectrum of TW Hydrae's protoplanetary disc

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Herschel detects abundant water in planet-forming disc

20/10/2011 3752 views 3 likes

Comet Hartley 2 observed by ESA’s Herschel

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Did Earth's oceans come from comets?

05/10/2011 9239 views 19 likes

Galaxy forming stars

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Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution

13/09/2011 4417 views 7 likes

Herschel found oxygen molecules near the Orion nebula.

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Astronomers searching for oxygen can breathe more easily

01/08/2011 6575 views 3 likes

Water plumes shoot from Enceladus

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Enceladus rains water onto Saturn

26/07/2011 11287 views 16 likes

Herschel and Hubble view of Supernova 1987A

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Exploding stars can make good dust factories

07/07/2011 2839 views 1 likes

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ESA Euronews: Hot from cold

17/06/2011 605 views 1 likes

An artist’s impression showing a galaxy with a molecular outflow

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Raging storms sweep away galactic gas

09/05/2011 4091 views 2 likes

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Andromeda’s coat of many colours

27/04/2011 7171 views 19 likes

Dense filaments of gas in IC5146

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Herschel links star formation to sonic booms

13/04/2011 3678 views 7 likes

The calculated distribution of dark matter

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Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars

16/02/2011 4561 views 1 likes

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