The European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory-- the largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever flown in space -- has run out of liquid helium coolant, ending more than three years ...

Herschel is a European Space Agency (ESA) mission with important participation from NASA. The telescope was launched on May 14, 2009. With a main mirror 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) across, it is the ...

The space telescope launched in 2009 and ended its mission in 2013. See amazing photos and images from the Herschel Space Observatory's prolific mission to observe the universe.

PARIS — Ground controllers put Europe's Herschel Space Observatory to sleep Monday (June 17), turning off the infrared observatory after squeezing every bit of engineering value from the ...

So Long, Herschel Space Observatory. The European Space Agency's infrared space telescope reaches the end of the line. By Andrew Moseman Published: Apr 30, 2013 10:23 AM EDT. Save Article.

The Herschel Space Observatory has returned over 35,000 scientific observations, more than 25,000 hours of data from about 600 observing programs and 2000 hours of calibration observations.

By the end of 2007, the assembly of the ESA's Herschel far-infrared space observatory -- the latest mission to study the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies -- will be completed.

I have some unfortunate news for y’all today. ESA’s Herschel space observatory will be retiring within the next few weeks. Herschel is an infrared telescope, home to a gigantic mirror 3.5 ...

On April 29, the Herschel Space Observatory exhausted its supply of ultra-cold liquid helium coolant, required to do its most sensitive observations.

ESA Herschel space observatory image of Andromeda (M31) using both PACS and SPIRE instruments to observe at infrared wavelengths of 70 mm (blue), 100 mm (green) and 160 mm and 250 mm combined (red).

Herschel was launched into space in 2009 to chart the infrared universe and was the most powerful observatory of its kind. During the mission Herschel recorded over 35,000 scientific observations ...

Observations made by the Herschel space observatory have revealed 15 protostars in the constellation Orion, the biggest star formation area near our own solar system.