Telescope witnesses Milky Way starbirth

By doris | Published: October 3, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com

The recently launched Herschel Space Telescope has just returned glowing pictures of our own Milky Way galaxy in infrared light.

The European Space Agency mission (with contributions from NASA) lifted off in May on a quest to observe the universe in long-wavelength infrared light. The telescope used two instruments simultaneously to snap the new Milky Way photos in five different ranges, or “colors,” of infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes.

“Herschel’s infrared vision lets us sense the feeble heat from some of the coldest objects in the cosmos,” said Paul Goldsmith, the project scientist for the mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

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