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NASA Herschel Science Center's Portal to the Cool Universe
Crab Nebula
External • nhsc2012-014 • Thursday, December 13th, 2012
Herschel has produced an intricate view of the remains of a star that died in a stellar explosion a millennium ago. It has provided further proof that the interstellar dust which lies throughout our Galaxy is created when massive stars reach the end of their lives. More ...
Fireworks in the Early Universe
External • nhsc2012-011 • Friday, September 14th, 2012
Galaxies in the early universe grew fast by rapidly making new stars. Such prodigious star formation episodes, characterized by the intense radiation of the newborn stars, were often accompanied by fireworks in the form of energy bursts caused by the massive central black hole accretion in these galaxies. This discovery by a group of astronomers led by Peter Barthel of the Kapteyn Institute of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands is published today in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. More ...
GOODS-Herschel Reveals Gas Mass Role in Creating Fireworks Versus Beacons of Star Formation
External • nhsc2012-004 • Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
A study of galaxies in the deepest far-infrared image of the sky, obtained by the Herschel Space Observatory, highlights the two contrasting ways that stars formed in galaxies up to 12 billion years ago. Dr Georgios Magdis will present the results at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester. More ...
Young Star Shooting Water Bullets
External • nhsc2011-011 • Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Observations with Herschel-HIFI of water in a young Sun-like star reveal high-velocity bullets moving at more than 200,000 kmh from the star. This can be compared to the velocity of a bullet from an AK47 rifle, which is 2500 kmh or 80 times slower. More ...
Herschel Lives Up to the Family Name
External • nhsc2011-008 • Friday, May 13th, 2011
The Herschel Space Observatory has been observing the sky at infrared wavelengths since shortly after its launch two years ago, on 14th May 2009. But the name Herschel has a much longer legacy than that. More ...
Herschel Space Observatory Discovers the Clearing Out of Star-Forming Gas in Mergers of Gas-Rich Galaxies
External • nhsc2011-007 • Monday, May 9th, 2011
Herschel Space Observatory has detected massive amounts of molecular gas gusting at high velocities - in some cases in excess of 1000 kilometers per second - from the centers of a sample of merging galaxies. More ...
Caught in the Act: Cascading Material Pours onto a Young Star
External • nhsc2011-005 • Thursday, April 21st, 2011
Astronomer Joel Green of The University of Texas at Austin has been following a rare massive flare from a nascent star similar to the early Sun using the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel Space Observatory and a cadre of other telescopes. More ...
RAS Honours Outstanding Astronomers and Geophysicists
External • nhsc2011-002 • Friday, January 14th, 2011
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), the UK’s voice for professional astronomers and geophysicists today announced the recipients of the Society’s medals and awards for 2011. The prizes honour individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to astronomy and geophysics and will be given out at the 2011 National Astronomy Meeting to be held in Llandudno, Wales, in April. More ...
Special Issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dedicated to Herschel's First Results
External • nhsc2010-010 • Friday, July 16th, 2010
The first scientific results obtained with Herschel are appearing, this week, in a special issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Based on data collected during the first few months of operations with this ESA observatory, the 152 new publications tackle a multitude of different astrophysical subjects, ranging from nearby Solar System bodies through newly-forming stars in our Galaxy, all the way to very distant galaxies. More ...
Herschel reveals details of distant galaxies and quasars
External • nhsc2010-009 • Thursday, July 1st, 2010
Amazing new data captured by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory – carrying the largest mirror ever launched into space - have just been publicly released, allowing the World’s astronomers to share in the Herschel SPIRE instrument’s observations of distant galaxies. More ...
UBC Astronomers Unveil Images of 12 Billion Year Old Space Nursery
External • nhsc2010-001 • Thursday, January 7th, 2010
A University of British Columbia astronomer has produced the most detailed images of deep space from 12 billion years ago, using data from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory. More ...
Michigan Astronomer to Search in Space for Precursors of Life
External • nhsc2009-009 • Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Many of the organic molecules that make up life on Earth have also been found in space. A University of Michigan astronomer will use the Herschel Space Observatory to study these chemical compounds in new detail in the warm clouds of gas and dust around young stars. More ...
