ESA Herschel Telescope recognize Owned

Teleskop Herschel.

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Herschel telescope which is also known as the Herschel Space Observatory is a large telescope made ​​and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) which aimed to observe the process of the formation of galaxies in the universe, the evolution of galaxies, star formation and the interaction between

stars, the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the solar system, including planets, comets, and the moon, and to know the chemical composition of molecules in the universe. Herschel telescope was launched into space on May 14, 2009 from the Guiana Space Centre, France using the Ariane 5 ECA rocket.

Herschel telescope weighs 3,300 kg (3.3 tons) and is equipped with a giant mirror of 3.5 meters that is sensitive to infrared light and wave submilimeter (55-672 m). The telescope was placed at a distance of 1.5 million km from Earth.

Prinsip kerja cermin raksasa dan detektor pada teleskop Herschel. Image credit: caltech.edu

The telescope is named after Herschel as a tribute to the discoverer Sir William Herschel infrared spectrum and planet Uranus. Herschel telescope is able to see the object space with the coldest temperatures in the area covered by the cosmic dust though. This telescope is able to collect light from the objects in the solar system that are billions of galaxies even light years from Earth. Light collected by the giant mirror was then focused on the three detectors were stored at a temperature of -271 degrees Celsius. The detector is cooled by as much as 2,300 liters of helium. So it is that determines the helium operational lifetime of the Herschel telescope. If helium is exhausted then the Herschel telescope mission ends

Right on 29 April 2013, Helium as coolant Herschel telescope detectors in the telescope out and stop operating. ESA engineers decided to put it in orbit the Sun.

During operation, telekop Herschel has done at least approximately 35 thousand scientific observations and collecting more than 25 thousand hours of scientific data. The success of such missions successfully determine cause of it by water on planet Jupiter which was caused by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994, managed to find galaxies HFLS3 and other successful series of observations.

Currently ESA is preparing the next generation of the Herschel telescope SPICA.