Herschel's First Peaks at Galaxies

Friday, July 10, 2009 - 14:14 in Astronomy & Space

These pictures, taken by Herschel's spectral and photometric imaging receiver before fine-tuning or in-orbit final calibration was performed, show the galaxy called M74 at three different wavelengths: 250, 300 and 500 microns.

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