Looking Back in Time 12 Billion Years With New Instruments On Herschel Space Observatory

This is the Herschel Space Observatory. (Credit: European Space Agency)

From Science Daily:

Science Daily (Jan. 1, 2010) — An instrument package developed in part by the University of Colorado at Boulder for the $2.2 billion orbiting Herschel Space Observatory launched in May by the European Space Agency has provided one of the most detailed views yet of space up to 12 billion years back in time.

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