Herschel telescope (Image: ESA) “Herschel has offered us a new view of the hitherto hidden Universe, pointing us to a previously unseen process of star birth and galaxy formation, ...

Europe’s Herschel space telescope, which has helped transform our understanding of star birth and galaxy evolution, is expected to cease operations this month.

Herschel is the largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever launched into space. Its observations in the far-infrared to sub-millimeter wavelengths of light will allow astronomers to study some ...

With its11.5-foot (3.5-meter) mirror (the largest ever sent into space and almost 1.5times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope), Herschel will be able to exploremore in the far-infrared than ...

Astronomers at the Herschel telescope in Europe have spotted an 'impossible' star that will turn into one of the biggest and brightest stars in our galaxy.

As Herschel's infrared eye looked in the direction of NGC 1999 to study nearby young stars, the cloud continued to look black, even though the telescope's infrared technology is designed to ...

The Herschel telescope’s primary mirror, the largest ever to be launched in space, is a novel and advanced concept using 12 silicon carbide petals brazed together into a single piece.

The new instrument is a wide-field spectrograph—more plainly, it’s a super-fast mapping device connected to the William ...

A team of over 60 astronomers spotted the collision using the William Herschel Telescope Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE) wide-field spectrograph attached to the William Herschel Telescope ...