Science news articles about 'infrared space observatory'

Herschel, ESA’s infrared space observatory, and Planck, ESA’s mission that will look back to the very dawn of time, are scheduled for launch on 16 April 2009 from ESA’s Spaceport in Kourou, French ...

... 250 microns, longer than any previous infrared space observatory, but still the shortest SPIRE wavelength. ... ability to study celestial objects at far infrared wavelengths. The galaxy Messier 66 (M66) ...

... obtained thanks to observations with the ESA Infrared Space Observatory , which revealed a 16 500 light- ... original images, obtained by observing in the near-infrared through three different filters (J ...