Herschel Works Cited

Image of “About.” Herschel Space Observatory, California

the Institute of Technology,
www.herschel.caltech.edu/page/about.
Pinwheel
Galaxy European Space Agency. Herschel. Herschel,
European Space Agency, 2009,
herschel.esac.esa.int/Publ/2009/BR-
The Herschel Space Observatory. Credit: ESA
262_Herschel_brochure_v42.pdf.
The European Space Agency

PEOPLE
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Space Agency, sci.esa.int/herschel/. partnered with NASA/JPL to

INVOLVED
“Herschel Publishing Rules and Guidelines - Cosmos.” present the

HERSCHEL
Cosmos: The Portal For Users Of ESA's Science
Directorate's Missions, European Space Agency,
Principle investigators: Leo Metcalfe -
www.cosmos.esa.int/web/herschel/publishing-rules-
Mission Manager/Science Operations guidelines.

Manager, Thomas Passvogel - Project
Manager (2000-2009), Frank Helmich, SRON
(Groningen, The Netherlands) - HIFI, Albrecht
SPACE
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Participation from NASA/JPL.” NASA, NASA,

Poglitsch, MPE (Garching, Germany) - PACS,
Matthew Griffin, University of Wales (Cardiff,
United Kingdom) - SPIRE
Project Scientists: Göran Pilbratt
Public outreach- contacts:
markus.bauer@esa.int, or anne-
mareike.homfeld@esa.int
TELESCOPE
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About the Image

Date: September 20, 2017 A study in the radiation of
ID: nhsc2017-004a
brochure by Annie the far infrared and sub-
Type: Observation
Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO; Cooley @ SWIC millimeter wavelengths.
Acknowledgement: R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech)
made using canva.com

EXPLORING
THE FULL
SPECTRUM OF
THE UNIVERSE
The Herschel Space Telescope
studied the universe by the light of the
far-infrared and sub-millimeter
portions of the spectrum using
instruments HIFI, SPIRE, and PACS.
SPIRE
About the Image
Date: October 12, 2016
Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver
ID: nhsc2016-003b
Type: Observation
Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech
-Very high resolution heterodyne
spectrometer
HIFI RESULTS
Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared
-Very high resolution heterodyne
Many exciting discoveries were made using
the Herschel telescope, including:
spectrometer
A noble gas molecule, argon hydride,
PACS withing the Crab Nebula
Billions of years old galaxies that had
Photodetector Array Camera and
not previously been viewed
Spectrometer
Water vapor is being emitted from
-Imaging photometer / medium resolution
dwarf planet Ceres
grating spectrometer
The smallest star of the nearby
Formault system has its own comet
belt
Herschel
photograph of
the Dusty Side
of the Sword
Image Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech
of Orion