Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 14:56 in Astronomy & Space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESA`s Herschel Space Telescope, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutions have for the first time resolved more than half of this radiation into its constituting sources. Observations with Herschel open the road towards understanding the properties of these galaxies, and trace the dusty side of galaxy evolution.

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