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ESAHerschel

  1. Where is Herschel? The answer(s) may just surprise you! It is more than just the biggest ever space observatory: herschellife.blogspot.es/1337958216/ 8:07 AM May 25th via web
  2. The PACS maps will study the properties & distribution of tens of thousands of galaxies out to a few thousand million light years distance. 12:20 AM May 25th via web
  3. Today Herschel finishes the HIFI run looking at interstellar chemistry & turns to a deep cosmological survey with PACS. 12:17 AM May 25th via web
  4. The (William) Herschel crater on the Moon is close to the centre of the disk and nicely visible in a small telescope. 11:57 PM May 24th via web
  5. Only 3 of the 5 craters called Herschel in the solar system are named for William Herschel: others are for sister Caroline & son, John. 11:56 PM May 24th via web
  6. Herschel Image of the Day: Herschel crater (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hers…, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_…). One of 5 in the solar system en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschel_…. 11:49 PM May 24th via web
  7. A reminder of the (unofficial) Herschel Science Centre Facebook page: facebook.com/pages/Herschel… And last year Blog: herschellife.blogspot.es/1337873340/ 8:46 AM May 24th via web
  8. You can see how restless 29P is looking at this light curve covering the last 11 years: observadores-cometas.com/cometas/29p/im…. It can brighten 6 magnitudes. 1:03 AM May 24th via web
  9. Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann is a curious object which has frequent violent outbursts. Herschel is helping to unveil some of its mysteries 12:51 AM May 24th via web
  10. Herschel Image of the Day: crazy comet 29P! In 2010 Herschel observed it in outburst & quiescence with images & spectra twitter.com/ESAHerschel/st… 12:19 AM May 24th via web
  11. Herschel is in the middle of another HIFI block, looking mainly at interstellar chemistry & the amzing variety of molecules found in space. 4:57 AM May 23rd via web
  12. Herschel's survey of the distant universe shows that galaxies do not spread evenly. They group together in clouds like boiling Big Bang foam 4:45 AM May 23rd via web
  13. Herschel Image of the Day: clouds of distant galaxies in the ATLAS survey. Each dot is a distant galaxy. twitter.com/ESAHerschel/st… 4:43 AM May 23rd via web
  14. Herschel Image of the Day: the W48 star formation region. PACS 70 microns (blue), 160 (green), SPIRE 250 microns (red) twitter.com/ESAHerschel/st… 3:39 AM May 21st via web
  15. A Blog of the last year of Herschel Routine Science Operations: herschellife.blogspot.es/index Click on the month to the right to see all entries. 2:47 AM May 21st via web
  16. This is the new (unofficial) Herschel Science Centre Facebook page: facebook.com/pages/Herschel… 2:45 AM May 21st via web
  17. Herschel's radiation monitor's view of the lastest proton storm: proteus.space.noa.gr/~srem/herschel… 2:09 AM May 21st via web
  18. APOD: Herschel's view of CygnusX!! apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120517.…. Many people in Herschel think that this is our finest image yet 1:40 AM May 17th via web
  19. British amateur astronomer Richard Miles captured Herschel, @Planck & the Sylda with the 2.5m Faulkes Telescope in Australia, on track to L2 6:53 AM May 15th via web
  20. Herschel Image of the Day: On our way (3 years ago today)!! Herschel & @Planck captured half way to the Moon. twitter.com/ESAHerschel/st… 6:51 AM May 15th via web
  • Name ESA Herschel
  • Location ESAC, Madrid
  • Web http://www.esa.in...
  • Bio A European Space Agency (ESA) mission. Both the most sensitive far-infrared telescope ever put into space &, at 3.5m, the largest space telescope of any kind.
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