Herschel has built a huge catalogue of far-infrared and sub-mm images of the sky.
With its far-infrared detectors, Herschel has been able to re-visit familiar objects to provide new data.
Herschel's view of RCW 120, a bubble of gas and dust in space around a massive star.
Since 2009, the billion-euro Herschel telescope has been unravelling the complexities of star birth and galaxy evolution.
One insignificant figure who achieved some importance with the aid of a pistol was Herschel Grynszpan.
WSJ: Book Review: The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
An "active", or mechanical, cooling system was considered for Herschel in the initial feasibility studies.
The familiar Section 529 college savings plans could backfire, too, says Brown University economist Herschel Grossman.
The much shorter wavelengths at which Hubble works means it can produce finer, sharper detail than Herschel.
When the supply runs completely dry, Herschel will warm from its ultra-low functioning temperature and go blind.
Herschel's demise occurred close to the time forecast at the start of operations nearly four years ago.
's friend Lotty Herschel is enraged by what she sees as his shameless exploitation of Jewish history.
The discovery of infrared radiation is attributed to the British-German astronomer William Herschel, who also wrote 24 symphonies.
That is very important for Herschel and Planck which will both be investigating aspects of the "cold Universe".
Even running back Herschel Walker made it to the Olympics albeit as a member of the 1992 two-man bobsled team.
Herschel's sister, Esther who later died in Auschwitz sent a postcard to her brother in Paris asking him for urgent assistance.
WSJ: Book Review: The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
Theoretically, mechanical coolers could have given Herschel more life, but engineers considered such a design to be too risky.
Astronomer Royal, William Herschel, noticed a correlation between sunspots and the price of wheat in England two centuries ago.
Reaching Herschel himself would have taken weeks, so rival newspapers had no choice but to repeat the juicy information.
It was acquired by the Herschel Space Telescope and the release marks the observatory's second year in orbit.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
If you've never been to Herschel's house in New King Street in Bath, I can heartily recommend it.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
Herschel will be remembered as the telescope that produced great vistas of gas and dust, as here in the constellation of Cygnus.
The helium refrigerant that does this job will run out in a few weeks and when it does, Herschel will go blind.
This technology has allowed Herschel to study the processes at play as large clouds of gas and dust collapse to form new stars.
Zindel's brothers Abraham and Salomon were tailors in Paris, and it was there that the 15-year-old Herschel was sent in 1936.
WSJ: Book Review: The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
"Herschel's arrival was a big distraction, " says Greg Murtha, an offensive lineman who had played with the Baltimore Colts in 1982.
Herschel's father, Zindel, was a man of many trades and few blessings.
WSJ: Book Review: The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan
Already, thousands of pictures have been deposited in the Herschel archive, which is set to become a key reference source for decades into the future.
Herschel's cryostat approach to cooling was evolved from a previous Esa mission - the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), which operated in the 1990s.
On the sixth day, after selling thousands of copies of this sensational news, the paper claimed that a fire had destroyed Herschel's telescope.
These were dazzling machines in their day, and in many ways just as extraordinary as the Esa observatory called Herschel in his honour.
BBC: Uranus image celebrates Herschel - the man and the machine
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