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Integration of MIRI into the James Webb Space Telescope

Inside the cleanrooms of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, the international James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is beginning to take shape.
JWST is a future infrared space observatory with a collecting area more than two and a half times larger than ESA's Herschel – the largest infrared scientific telescope so far flown to space.

Goodbye Herschel

Space science image of the week: final view of ESA's Herschel space observatory

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Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies

Herschel Space Observatory Finds Mega Merger of Galaxies

05/22/2013 12:00 AM EDT

A massive and rare merging of two galaxies has been spotted in images taken by the Herschel space observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation.

Rare merger reveals secrets of galaxy evolution

Rare merger reveals secrets of galaxy evolution

22-05-2013 07:00 PM CEST

A rare encounter between two gas-rich galaxies spotted by ESA's Herschel space observatory indicates a solution to an outstanding problem: how did massive, passive galaxies form in the early Universe?