Saturday, 3. October 2009

The Milky Way unveiled as we have never seen it before


Herschel has recently achieved another major milestone in the currently ongoing performance verification phase. Building on the already demonstrated photometric capabilities of the PACS and SPIRE science instruments employed in the 'sneak preview' and 'first-light' observations, for the first time Herschel has now observed in the 'SPIRE/PACS parallel mode'.

Herschel scans hidden Milky Way

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