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Observations conducted with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory have just revealed the presence of a huge, galaxy-filled filament of matter connecting two large galaxy clusters. These structures are on their way to a full-scale merger.
The event will also include a third cluster, which... |
18 May 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Using the most complex infrared telescope ever deployed to space – the Herschel Space Observatory – experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently snapped an amazing image of the stellar nursery Cygnus-X. The structure is located around 4,500 light-years away, in the Cygnus constellation.
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10 May 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the their Herschel Space Observatory has recently been used to demonstrate that the most active supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies tend to impair stellar formation within the structures they occupy.
This discovery may highlight an interaction and f... |
10 May 2012
03:43 GMT |
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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that the Herschel Space Observatory – the world's most advanced telescope – has recently observed the area around the star Fomalhaut. The team behind the study found that thousands of icy comets are destroyed there every single day.
Previous observ... |
12 April 2012
04:47 GMT |
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Using data from two separate space observatories, a group of astronomers was recently able to confirm that the enormous galaxy Centaurus A is in fact made up of two older galaxies, which collided a long time ago.
In the new investigation, scientists looked at the central regions of Centaurus A in both the infrared ... |
5 April 2012
03:32 GMT |
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Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers was recently able to observe a number of blue stars in the Orion Nebula, as they were undergoing intricate transformations right in front of their eyes.
The effect was given b... |
29 February 2012
10:50 GMT |
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After seeing literally thousands of pictures taken in deep space, I thought that there were no more surprises for me in terms of beautiful space structures. But the European Space Agency (ESA) again proved me wrong when it released this amazing new view of the Eagle Nebula.
The image was collected using the He... |
17 January 2012
08:48 GMT |
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The latest observations from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory reveal dust concentrations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC), two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way at close range. Knowing how cosmic dust and gas are distributed throughout a galaxy is essential towards d... |
11 January 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of a massive reservoir of water in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star TW Hydrae. The reserve holds vast amounts of water, the team explains.
The study revealed that the water vapor which He... |
21 October 2011
02:17 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Observatory – the largest and most complex telescope ever deployed to space – has recently detected water very similar to that in Earth's oceans in a distant comet. Both types of water exhibited nearly identical compositions, indicating that impactors may have brought water here.
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6 October 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Thanks to the most advanced space telescope ever built, researchers managed to establish that the influence the icy moon Enceladus exerts on Saturn is a lot more significant than originally thought. Apparently, the smaller body is the source of water vapors in the gas giant's atmosphere.
This was established... |
22 September 2011
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New data collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory indicate that galaxies can start producing new stars at a frantic pace regardless of whether they collide with other galaxies. This was previously thought to be the main mechanism that reignited the process.
At this time, Hers... |
13 September 2011
08:22 GMT |
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Experts operating the Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula, a renowned stellar nursery inside the Milky Way. The European Space Agency (ESA) telescope is the first to find this form of oxygen in outer space. Atomic oxygen has been spotted in a variety of locations ... |
2 August 2011
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of organic molecules that may potentially enable life. The chemicals were discovered in the famous Orion Nebula.The stellar nursery is located within our own galaxy, the Milky Way. According to the research team... |
1 August 2011
10:29 GMT |
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A group of astronomers has recently determined that the water vapor spacecraft were detecting the in upper atmosphere of Saturn come from the ice-covered moon Enceladus. The source of these vapors has been sought-for for many years, but to no avail.Recently, experts managed to get a breakthrough when they used the Eu... |
26 July 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Using the most complex telescope in space, experts were recently able to identify a massive ring of dense gas at the core of the Milky Way. The structure stretches for more than 600 light-years, and was never before seen in its entirety.Previous studies revealed some portions of the structures, but it took the resolv... |
20 July 2011
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Astronomers using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of massive volumes of dust in supernova remnants. The finding confirms the theory which holds that the violent death of massive stars is responsible for seeding heavy elements in the Cosmos.Determining which mec... |
8 July 2011
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A new series of investigations has revealed the presence of a twisting, fast-moving stream of gas clouds swirling around the center of our galaxy. The structure was detected in the far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, and is believed to be very cool.The discovery was made using the European Space Age... |
31 May 2011
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Data collected using the most advanced space telescope in the world are indicating that some galaxies may develop storms that are so powerful that they wipe out the gas used for forming new stars. These storm-like events generate a huge outflow of hydrogen gas out of stellar nurseries, and then out of galaxies, leavi... |
9 May 2011
10:57 GMT |
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Discoveries recently made with an advanced telescope indicate that filaments developing inside clouds of cosmic gas have about the same width. The measure holds true regardless of the length or density inside these clouds. The finding holds some interesting implications for astronomy.Experts were surveying nearby int... |
14 April 2011
07:32 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) produced one of the most interesting images of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda, ever taken. Two space telescopes, the Herschel Space Observatory and the XMM Newton, were used to piece together this amazing view. Herschel, which launched in 2009 aboard the same Ariane 5 h... |
5 January 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Astronomers operating the Herschel Space Observatory say that they were able to use the instrument's amazing observations power to conduct an investigation of the early Universe, which revealed forming galaxies that were producing new stars at impressive rates and scales. The new study was only made possible by ... |
17 December 2010
10:59 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory is the most advanced piece of astronomical hardware in orbit today, and this shows through its skills. The telescope is capable of seeing magnified galaxies enshrouded in dust from distances that can put all other telescopes to shame.The European observatory... |
5 November 2010
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Taking advantage of the fact that the European Space Agency launched the most complex and powerful space telescope in the world last year, an expert team has conducted a series of new investigations on the Martian atmosphere, that are likely to clear up some long-standing mysteries.The Herschel Space Observatory was ... |
21 September 2010
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Over the past few years, astronomers surveying the skies noticed that the brightest, most massive galaxies appeared to be occupying only specific regions of the Universe. The correlation was strongest for older cluster, some up to 10 billion years old. Puzzled by this trend, an international group of researchers dec... |
21 May 2010
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) are delighted to announce the one-year anniversary of the spectacular launch that saw two of the most advanced space telescopes ever built taken to Earth's orbit. On May 14, 2009, an Ariane 5 heavy-lift delivery system, carrying the Herschel Space Observatory and the Pl... |
14 May 2010
09:09 GMT |
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It would appear that officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) were not boasting for nothing when they said that the Herschel Space Observatory is the most advanced and sensitive infrared space-based telescope in existence today. The machine never disappoints when astronomers want it to peer as deep into the early... |
14 May 2010
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Researchers announce the discovery of a very peculiar structure in space. Using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory, a group of astronomers managed to identify a vast hole in space, located in a region of the Universe that they previously thought should have been filled with a ... |
12 May 2010
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Recent data sent back by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory reveal that most of the interstellar gas masses in our galaxy contain the signature of a peculiar chemical. Using its enormous infrared observational power, the largest telescope ever flown to space determined that the gas clou... |
11 May 2010
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Scientists at the ETH Zürich in Switzerland have recently determined the existence of a new phase of water in a star-forming region of the Milky Way. The researchers there say that the vapors their analysis revealed have electrical charges, something that has not been observed in nature back on Earth. Generally,... |
8 May 2010
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory is the largest telescope ever flown to space, and arguably the most advanced of its class. It surveys the sky in infrared wavelengths, with the express purpose of gaining more data on how the Universe appeared, and how the first stars began forming. It... |
6 May 2010
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Scientists operating the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory announce the discovery of a host of life-enabling molecules in the famous Orion Nebula. The trace signature of these chemicals was discovered through spectral analysis of the light coming in from this particular location. Herschel is uni... |
5 March 2010
08:40 GMT |
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Following repairs on its HIFI instrument, the Herschel Space Observatory is back online and ready to perform science. The European Space Agency (ESA) telescope is the largest ever built to date, and also the most sensitive. It surveys the skies from its “strategic” location in the L2 Lagrangian point, som... |
20 January 2010
08:45 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Observatory is the largest instrument of its kind ever launched in the Earth's orbit. Designed to provide astronomers and astrophysicists with deep insight into the origins of the Universe, and also into some of the most concealed and cold objects in the skies, the telescope was launched toget... |
15 January 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Telescope, a 2.2-billion-euro project launched by the European Space Agency last May, recently managed to snap a photo of the early Universe. Using an instrument that was in part developed by experts at the University of Colorado in Boulder (UCB), the observatory looked back in time to an age when ... |
4 January 2010
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Scientists operating the Herschel Space Telescope have recently announced that they managed to identify some of the sources associated with the CIB (Cosmic Infrared Background) that the observatory detected a while back. The weak field surrounds the Earth from all directions, and experts believe that it may hold yet-... |
21 December 2009
06:46 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Observatory, the European Space Agency's new, advanced telescope, has recently started observing the Universe with unbelievable accuracy. As part of the first observations, it was pointed in the direction of the constellation Aquila, the Eagle. The structure is located some 1,000 light-years a... |
16 December 2009
10:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the McMaster University have recently revealed that the new data sets sent back by the Herschel Space Observatory (HSO) are providing them with new windows into the appearance, development and demise of galaxies. The telescope has been especially constructed to analyze regions of the electromagnetic sp... |
1 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Scientists handling the European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory announce the release of observations performed on one of the largest stars ever known to science, VY Canis Major. The advanced instrument, which was launched in May aboard a modified Ariane 5 delivery system, alongside the Planck Ob... |
28 November 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Two of the most advanced telescopes orbiting the planet or the Sun today were launched this year aboard an Ariane 5 delivery system by the European Space Agency (ESA). One of them is the Planck observatory, whose mission is to analyze the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), while the other is the flagship mission, the... |
2 October 2009
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The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that one of the three main instruments aboard the Herschel Space Telescope had malfunctioned, and that it was been taken offline one month ago. At this point, there is no time frame as to when the device will be brought back online, if ever. Because of the flaw, the observatory... |
15 September 2009
05:43 GMT |
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The recently launched Planck telescope has just begun observing the early Universe, accumulating background radiation that was most likely created when the Universe first sprung into being. The mission is conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA), with vast collaboration from NASA. In addition to the observatory, ... |
14 August 2009
10:33 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently released an image of the Messier 51 galaxy, also known as the Messier Galaxy, which was partially collected by the newly launched Herschel Space Telescope, and partially by the famous Hubble Space Telescope. The composite photograph shows the well-known galax... |
1 July 2009
13:01 GMT |
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In the first tests of the largest infrared telescope ever constructed, Herschel mission controllers opened the observatory's eyes on June 14th, and set it to take snapshots of the Messier 51 galaxy. More famously known as the whirlpool galaxy, Messier 51 was discovered by Charles Messier back in 1773, and its na... |
22 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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After being successfully launched in May, together with the Planck Space Telescope, the billion-euro Herschel has finally ejected the cover protecting its delicate instruments from radiation, as it nears the final destination of its 1.5 million kilometers to the L2 point in orbit. Yesterday, mission controllers sent ... |
15 June 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has just reached a critical point in its mission, as it got nearly halfway to its destination, the Lagrangian point L2. The delicate observatory has already started making a series of maneuvers in space, all aimed at pushing it onto the correct path to the L2. The mov... |
9 June 2009
16:51 GMT |
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The Herschel Space Telescope, which was launched on May 14th, has sent back its first set of flight data, but not through conventional channels, but via the use of mobile phone technology, the same type employed by GSM networks. The observatory, currently inbound to its Lagrangian (L) 2 orbital point, contacted ESA&#... |
20 May 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Yesterday, aeronautics company Arianespace managed to launch its 40th successful mission to orbit, safely carrying the Herschel and Planck space telescopes to their intermediary destination aboard an Ariane 5 delivery system. The picture-perfect launch, which took place at 6:12 am Pacific Time (9:12 am EDT / 1312 GMT... |
15 May 2009
06:34 GMT |
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Ten years in the making, the Herschel/Planck mission has just been officially deemed a resounding success. Arianespace's live webcast of the lift-off procedure showed a picture-perfect launch, with the Ariane 5 delivery system thundering away from the Guiana Space Center, in French Guyana, South America. Under a... |
14 May 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Today, the ESA-operated Guiana Space Center, in South America, will launch an Ariane 5 delivery system, which will carry two new space telescopes, Herschel and Planck, to a transfer orbit. After several delays, the mission was finally confirmed a few days ago, and everything looks set for today's launch. The two... |
14 May 2009
03:08 GMT |
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