Herschel’s view of the Eagle Nebula. Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project Herschel’s view of the Galactic Plane. Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
ESA’s Herschel mission releases today a series of unprecedented maps of star-forming hubs in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. This is accompanied by a set of catalogues of hundreds of thousands of compact sources that span all phases leading to the birth of stars in our Galaxy. These maps and catalogues will be valuable resources for astronomers for planning follow-up studies of particularly interesting regions in the Galactic Plane.
Herschel’s view of the Eagle Nebula. Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
During its 4 years of operations (2009-2013), the Herschel space observatory scanned the sky at far-inf...
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