Scientific Results

A few results obtained thanks to Herschel satellite data

The results presented below are just a very small part of the results obtained thanks to Herschel satellite data. They are some of the results published by French scientists.

To see all the results published, visits the website:

http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/herschel/scientific-publications

Results:

• Enigmatic high-redshift galaxies discovered by Planck and Herschel

• Herschel's view of the early Universe reveals galaxy cluster fireworks

• Young suns violent history solves meteorite mystery

• New molecules around old stars

• Herschel sees budding stars and a giant, strange ring

• Herschel discovers mature galaxies in the young Universe

• Herschel completes largest survey of cosmic dust in local Universe

• Herschel discovers water vapour around dwarf planet Ceres

• Herschel discovers a second ring of comets in the Fomalhaut System

• Rare merger illuminates origin of "red and dead" galaxies

• Herschel reveals the Milky Way's warm heart

• The farther parts of the Solar System according to Herschel

• Herschel links water in Jupiter's stratosphere to comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

• Herschel and Hubble see the Horsehead nebula in new light

• Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evolution theory

• Retired star found with planetes and debris disc

• Hunting high-mass stars with Herschel

• Herschel gets to the bottom of black-hole jets

• Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis

• New galaxy census highlights importance of starbursts

• Do missing Jupiters mean massive comet belts?

• Life and death in a star-forming cloud

• At the heart of a star nursery

• Herschel hunts the water near us in the Universe

• Fledgling stars flicker in the heart of Orion

• An interstellar travel towards Vela C for the 1000 days of Herschel space telescope

• Herschel discovers tip of cosmic iceberg around nearby young star

• Hartley 2 comet - Herschel: a new view on the origin of Earth's oceans

• Herschel probes the dusty history of a giant star

• Stars birth: most of the galaxies don't give birth in pain

• Herschel confirms: Enceladus' plumes are watering the saturnian environment

• Oxygen molecules detected in the Orion Nebula

• Herschel Detects a Massive Dust Reservoir in Supernova 1987A

• Caught in the act by Herschel: galactic storms sweep away the gas

• Herschel unravels the thread of star formation in the Gould Belt

• Herschel quantifies the dark matter threshold for starburst galaxies

• Herschel observes EPOXI-encounter comet Hartley 2

• New method reveals gravitationally lensed galaxies in Herschel-ATLAS first survey

• Herschel Finds Hot Water Vapor Around a Carbon Star

• Herschel's splendid spectra

• Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string