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ESA's FIRST space telescope is to be re-named 'Herschel Space Observatory'

13 December 2000

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Sir William Herschel. In 1800, the German-born British astronomer and musician described that the differently coloured filters through which he observed the Sun allowed different levels of heat to pass. He performed a simple experiment to study the

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Artist's Impression of the Herschel Space Observatory (Formerly FIRST)