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Herschel and Planck win the French Grand Prix
 
10 June 2010   Yesterday in Paris, ESA’s Herschel and Planck science missions were honoured by the French Association for Aeronautics and Astronautics. The association’s Grand Prix 2010 award for “outstanding space endeavours” was bestowed upon these groundbreaking missions.
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Herschel finds a hole in space
 
11 May 2010   ESA’s Herschel infrared space telescope has made an unexpected discovery: a hole in space. The hole has provided astronomers with a surprising glimpse into the end of the star-forming process.
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Herschel reveals the hidden side of star birth
 
6 May 2010   ESA PR 09-2010. The first scientific results from ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory are revealing previously hidden details of star formation. New images show thousands of distant galaxies furiously building stars and beautiful star-forming clouds draped across the Milky Way. One picture even catches an ‘impossible’ star in the act of formation.
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19 January 2010   Herschel readies itself for the Orion Nebula
16 December 2009   Inside the dark heart of the Eagle
2 October 2009   Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string
4 September 2009   HIFI status under investigation
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