Planck Casts New Light on Stellar Formation
undefined Comments - 27 Apr 2010
A series of recent experiments has revealed that, more often than not, the halos of dark matter surrounding massive galaxy clusters are flattened and shaped like a cigar. Until now, astrophysicists believed that the mysterious stuff, which is bel...

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Baby stars in the Rosette cloud
0 Comments - 12 Apr 2010
Infrared image of the Rosette molecular cloud. Herschel collects the infrared light given out by dust and this image is a three-colour composite made of wavelengths at 70 microns (blue), 160 microns (green) and 250 microns (red). It was made with ob...

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Herschel Science Archive (HSA) and HIPE publicly [9 March 2010] available


We are pleased to announce that as of today the Herschel Science Archive (HSA) has been opened to the world. At the same time the Herschel Integrated Processing Environment (HIPE) software has been made available for public download. For more information use the 'HIPE Download' and 'HSA Access' buttons on the left. [9 March 2010]


HIFI spectral scan of Orion HIFI spectral scan of Orion (blowouts)