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    Herschel and Keck take census of the invisible Universe04 December 2012

    Herschel and Keck take census of the invisible Universe04 December 2012 By combining the observing powers of ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the ground-based Keck telescopes, astronomers have characterised hundreds of previously unseen starburst galaxies, revealing extraordinary high star-formation rates across the h...

    Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts?28 November 2012

    Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts?28 November 2012 Using ESA’s Herschel space observatory, astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds. The comet reservoirs could have delivered life-giving oceans to the innermos...

    W44 and its environment

    Life and death in a star-forming cloud14 November 2012

    W44 and its environment

    Life and death in a star-forming cloud14 November 2012 The aftershock of a stellar explosion rippling through space is captured in this new view of supernova remnant W44, which combines far-infrared and X-ray data from ESA’s Herschel and XMM-Newton space observatories.

    Taurus molecular cloud

    Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth09 October 2012

    Taurus molecular cloud

    Large water reservoirs at the dawn of stellar birth09 October 2012 ESA’s Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth’s oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star.

    Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system03 October 2012

    Comet crystals found in a nearby planetary system03 October 2012 Pristine material that matches comets in our own Solar System have been found in a dust belt around the young star Beta Pictoris by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.

    Flying along the Vela ridge09 July 2012

    Flying along the Vela ridge09 July 2012 A beautiful blue butterfly flutters towards a nest of warm dust and gas, above an intricate network of cool filaments in this image of the Vela C region by ESA’s Herschel space observatory.

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