Herschel readies itself for the Orion Nebula
by Alexandre Costa on Jan.19, 2010, under Satellites, Probes and Telescopes
Source: ESA
The Orion Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and
The Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
ESA’s Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument. HiFi, having been offline for 160 days while engineers investigated an unexpected problem in the electronic system, is now perfectly placed to resume its study of forming stars and planets.(read more)
