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Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel is ESA’s far-infrared space telescope. This blog is for members of the Herschel team to give some insights into what it’s like to work on a major space observatory and for anyone to ask us questions or comment on what we have to say.
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News and more news…

Dec 11, 2009
Next week will see the first science releases from Herschel at a big ESA press and science event in Madrid. There will be lots of exciting new science results and some stunning new images to look at. We’ll do our best to cover things here, but also...

HIFI wakes from its slumber

Dec 8, 2009
Some excellent news to report – the HIFI instrument on Herschel (the high resolution spectrometer) has been successfully switched on after lying dormant for 4 months, after suffering an unwanted voltage peak in the electronic system of HIFI, which in...

SPICA: The Next Step

Dec 2, 2009
While data has only just started to flow from Herschel, since these space missions take more than a decade to build, we’re already working on the next steps. These are all being done in the context of the ESA ‘Cosmic Visions’ programme. There was an...

Radio Show Part 2

Nov 29, 2009
I forgot to mention this at the time, but the second part of the BBC’s radio show about Herschel was broadcast on Wednesday. You can still get it on the BBC iPlayer. I’m listening to it right now and it’s pretty good – but then several of us are...

Publishing News

Nov 27, 2009
One of my other guises, apart from astrophysicist and blog editor, is as a starving science fiction writer. I’ve only just started to sell stories commercially, but I reached a big step this week with my first ever story to be published in one of the...


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