TELESCOPE
October 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Space Agency is to launch the world's first giant space telescope in 2007. Its Herschel Space Observatory will command a primary mirror 3.5 metres in diameter, allowing, said the European Commission, the faintest objects to be observed. This, it said, will allow onlookers to peer at galaxies so far away, they will be images of the first stars that ever existed, "providing information on their formation 13 billion years ago." It will also be able to detect far-infrared light, which cannot be seen from the ground, allowing the study of ...
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