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Satellite Herschel. Artwork

author: ESA/C.Carreau/Novapix

reference: e-sou12-20011

Image Size 300 DPI: 35 * 32 cm

ESA's Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Submillimetre Telescope or FIRST) studies 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 is bigger and better than any of its predecessors. Moreover, it observes at wavelengths never covered before. It is located 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth, farther than any previous space telescope. Launched in 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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2011 - ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITE - ASTRONOMY - HERSCHEL - ILLUSTRATION - INFRARED - MILLIMETER - SPACE - STAR - TEMPERATURE -