Astronomers Go Searching for Cold Dust

When completed, it will be the biggest space telescope ever build, with a mirror twice as big as that of the famous Hubble Optical Space Telescope, and it will help astronomers study cold icy dust, resident in some of the most remote corners of the universe. This automatically implies that th... [ read more >> ]

Artistic impression of the Herschel Space Observatory into Earth's orbit

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Artistic impression of the Herschel Space Observatory into Earth's orbit