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Ariane 5 stage with satellite Herschel. Artwork
author: ESA/D.Ducros/Novapix
reference: e-sou12-20013
Image Size 300 DPI: 50 * 34 cm
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope or FIRST) will solve the mystery of how stars and galaxies were born. Objects such as other planetary systems, or processes like the birth of galaxies in the early universe, can best be studied with infrared space telescopes in space. This is the reason for ESA's Herschel. ESA's Herschel Space Observatory will be bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Moreover, it will observe at wavelengths never covered before. It will be located 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth, farther than any previous space telescope. Launched on may 14 2009, Herschel is one the Cornerstone missions ESA's Horizons 2000 programme. Herschel is a key project space astronomy in the next millennium.
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