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NASA Herschel Science Center's Portal to the Cool Universe
Awash with Infrared Light
Observation • nhsc2009-020a • Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Some of the coldest and darkest dust in space shines brightly in this infrared image from the Herschel Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important participation from NASA. The image is a composite of light captured simultaneously by two of Herschel's three instruments -- the photodetector array camera and spectrometer, and its spectral and photometric imaging receiver. More ...
Dark Wombs of Stars
Observation • nhsc2009-020b • Friday, October 2nd, 2009
This image from the Herschel Observatory reveals some of the coldest and darkest material in our galaxy. The choppy clouds of gas and dust pictured here are just starting to condense into new stars. The yellow filaments show the coldest dust dotted with the youngest embryonic stars. More ...
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- Image Credit • ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Dark Star-Making Factory
Observation • nhsc2009-020c • Friday, October 2nd, 2009
This image from the Herschel Observatory reveals some of the coldest and darkest material in our galaxy. The choppy clouds of gas and dust are just starting to condense into new stars. More ...
SPIRE image of M74 at 250 μm
Observation • nhsc2009-017a • Thursday, July 9th, 2009
On 24 June 2009, SPIRE recorded its first images during the in-orbit commissioning phase of the Herschel mission. More ...
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- Image Credit • ESA and the SPIRE Consortium
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Herschel’s Daring Test: A Glimpse of Things to Come
Observation • nhsc2009-016a • Friday, June 26th, 2009
Three-color far-infrared image of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. More ...
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- Image Credit • ESA and the PACS Consortium
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