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Herschel Completes Its 'Cool' Journey in Space
04.29.13 - The Herschel observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.
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Herschel Links Water Around Jupiter to Comet Impact
04.23.13 - Astronomers trace water in Jupiter's intermediate atmospheric layer back to the famous Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact of 19 years ago.
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Astronomers Discover Massive Star Factory in Early Universe
04.17.13 - Busy-bee galaxy seen churning out stars when our universe was just a baby.
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Hunting Massive Stars with Herschel
03.28.13 - In a new view of a vast star-forming cloud called W3, the Herschel space observatory tells the story of how massive stars are born.
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Herschel Discovers Some of the Youngest Stars Ever Seen
03.19.13 - Astronomers have found some of the youngest stars ever seen, thanks to the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA contributions.
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Herschel to Complete Its Mission Soon
03.05.13 - The Herschel space observatory is expected to exhaust its supply of liquid helium coolant in the coming weeks, after spending more than three years studying the cool universe and surpassing the expectations of the international team of scientists involved.
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Herschel Finds Past-Prime Star may be Making Planets
01.30.13 - A star thought to have passed the age at which it can form planets may, in fact, be creating new worlds.
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Cool, New Views of Andromeda Galaxy
01.28.13 - Two new eye-catching views from the Herschel space observatory are fit for a princess.
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Betelgeuse Star Braces for Crash with Strange Bar
01.22.13 - Orion, the famous hunter presiding over northern winter skies, may experience a stellar crash in its future.
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Herschel Spacecraft Eyes Asteroid Apophis
01.09.13 - Scientists using the Herschel Space Observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this past weekend.
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NASA, ESA Find Evidence for Vega Asteroid Belt
01.08.13 - Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies.
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Herschel Serves up Solar Systems with Extra Comets
11.27.12 - Astronomers have discovered vast comet belts surrounding two nearby planetary systems known to host only Earth-to-Neptune-mass worlds.
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Life and Death in a Star-Forming Cloud
11.14.12 - New stars can be seen bubbling up around the remains of a dramatic stellar explosion in this new portrait from two space telescopes.
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Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars
05.17.12 - The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.
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Overfed Black Holes Shut Down Galactic Star-Making
05.09.12 - New data from Herschel Space Observatory shows galaxies with powerful, active black holes at their cores produce fewer stars.
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Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
04.12.12 - New data from the Herschel Space Observatory suggest comets are constantly smashing together around the star Fomalhaut.
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Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision
04.04.12 - The cataclysmic history of a giant galaxy is on display in a new image that combines infrared and X-ray observations.
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Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust
02.29.12 - Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Revisiting the 'Pillars of Creation'
01.18.12 - The famous "Pillars of Creation" are seen in a new light by the Herschel Space Observatory.
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Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust
01.10.12 - The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency-led mission with important NASA contributions; and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.