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Super eye in space to unravel galaxies [1]

Europe is to launch the most powerful space telescope ever built, with the ability to capture light from stars that were born and died up to 13 billion years ago. The Herschel space telescope, named after an 18th-century British astronomer, could help solve the mystery of how galaxies and stars formed and how these processes eventually gave rise to life-bearing planets like Earth.

Publication Date: 
11/02/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Physical Science [3], Astronomy [4], Space Technology [5]
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