Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

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 ...

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, ...

Here, Herschel's observations (orange) are combined with the Newton XMM telescope's (blue) Herschel's view of RCW 120, a bubble of gas and dust in space around a massive star.

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

Astronomers have found a remarkable pair of stars that may finally prove a long-debated theory. Described in the journal ...

PARIS — Ground controllers put Europe's Herschel Space Observatory to sleep Monday, turning off the infrared observatory after squeezing every bit of engineering value from the spacecraft since ...

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.

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.

Herschel has the largest single mirror ever built for a space telescope, 3.5 meters in diameter. At these wavelengths, Herschel is used to study widely different regions of the universe.

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