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NASA Herschel Science Center's Portal to the Cool Universe
Hustle and Bustle at Center of Milky Way
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-016a • Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
This artist's concept illustrates the frenzied activity at the core of our Milky Way galaxy. More ...
Artist's Impression of Starburst Galaxy
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-012a • Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
This artist's impression shows the "starburst" galaxy HFLS3. The galaxy appears as little more than a faint, red smudge in images from the Herschel space observatory. More ...
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- Image Credit • ESA–C. Carreau
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Cool Layer in a Sun-like Star
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-007a • Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
One of the great curiosities in solar science is that our Sun’s outer atmosphere – the corona – is heated to millions of degrees when its visible surface is ‘only’ about 6000 degrees. More ...
Artist's Impression of Galaxy with Outflow
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-006a • Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
This illustration shows a galaxy in the early Universe that is releasing material via two symmetric outflows triggered by the supermassive black hole hosted at its center. More ...
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Cool Disk of Planetary Material
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-005b • Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
This artist's concept illustrates the planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra, or Sea Serpent, constellation. More ...
Weighing Planetary Disks
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-005a • Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
This artist's illustration shows a planetary disk that weighs the equivalent of 50 Jupiter-mass planets. More ...
Vega: Two Belts and the Possibility of Planets
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-001b • Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the bright star Vega, as illustrated here at left in brown. More ...
Rocky Ring of Debris Around Vega
Artist Concept • nhsc2013-001a • Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
This artist's concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. More ...
A Vast Disk of Comets
Artist Concept • nhsc2012-013a • Tuesday, November 27th, 2012
This artist's impression shows the orbits of planets and comets around the star 61 Vir, superimposed on a view from the Herschel Space Telescope. More ...
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Active Black Hole Squashes Star Formation
Artist Concept • nhsc2012-007a • Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Supermassive black holes are believed to reside in the hearts of all large galaxies. When gas falls upon these monsters, the materials are accelerated and heated around the black hole, releasing great torrents of energy. More ...
Misty Star in the Sea Serpent
Artist Concept • nhsc2011-018b • Thursday, October 20th, 2011
This artist's concept illustrates an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra, or Sea Serpent, constellation. More ...
The Same Here as There
Artist Concept • nhsc2011-017b • Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
New measurements from the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered water with the same chemical signature as our oceans in a comet called Hartley 2 More ...
Galaxy Feeds Off Gas
Artist Concept • nhsc2011-015a • Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
In this artist's conception, a galaxy accretes mass from rapid, narrow streams of cold gas. These filaments provide the galaxy with continuous flows of raw material to feed its star-forming at a rather leisurely pace. More ...
Raging Storms Sweep Away Galactic Gas
Artist Concept • nhsc2011-006a • Monday, May 9th, 2011
An artist’s impression showing a galaxy with a molecular outflow. More ...
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Herschel / Planck Cheat Sheet
Artist Concept • nhsc2009-010a • Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Differences between Herschel and Planck missions. More ...
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Herschel Cryostat
Artist Concept • nhsc2007-001b • Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Herschel's superfluid helium II tank, where the helium is kept in its superfluid state at boiling temperature. More ...
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Herschel Focal Plane
Artist Concept • nhsc2007-001c • Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Top view of the Herschel focal plane, with the focal plane units (FPUs) of the three scientific instrument. More ...
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SPIRE Instrument
Artist Concept • nhsc2007-001d • Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) consists of a three-band imaging photometer centred at 250, 350 and 500 μm, and an imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) covering 200-670 μm. More ...
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PACS Instrument
Artist Concept • nhsc2007-001e • Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) consists of four detector arrays: two filled silicon bolometer arrays and two Ge:Ga photoconductor arrays. More ...
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HIFI Instrument
Artist Concept • nhsc2007-001f • Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared (HIFI) is a very high-resolution heterodyne spectrometer. More ...
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Herschel and NGST
Artist Concept • nhsc2000-002a • Thursday, December 14th, 2000
Artist's impression of Herschel and NGST. More ...
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