Herschel readies itself for the Orion Nebula
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 09:28
in Astronomy & Space
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.