Using the TUBITAK National Observatory and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the Istanbul University in Turkey and ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

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, ...

The Herschel observatory has a main mirror about 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) across — nearly 1.5 times larger than Hubble Space Telescope — and was built to map the universe in the far-infrared to ...

Europe Says Farewell to Prolific Herschel Space Telescope. News. By Stephen Clark published 17 June 2013 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Astronomers have observed a galaxy ripping through galactic debris left by multiple collisions at a dangerous "cosmic crossroads" called Stephan's Quintet.

The ING operates the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5 metre Isaac Newton Telescope, and the 1.0 metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope.

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 ...

Astronomers knew this day would come. The Herschel Space Observatory has run out of coolant and ceased looking into the cold, distant universe. Without liquid helium to keep the instruments ...

All good things come to an end and the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory mission is no exception. After more than three years in orbit, the most powerful infrared telescope ever ...