{"id":233,"date":"2011-08-01T16:25:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2011-08-01T16:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T20:25:29","slug":"herschel-space-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Herschel Space Observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_234\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/herschel\/multimedia\/pia14407.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-234\" title=\"Oxygen in Orion\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/576281main_pia14407-43_800-600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Oxygen in Orion\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/576281main_pia14407-43_800-600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/576281main_pia14407-43_800-600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-234\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oxygen in Orion. Image credit: ESA\/NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Very cool: \u00a0the large telescope of the Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope or FIRST)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/herschel\/news\/herschel20110801.html\" target=\"_blank\">has detected oxygen molecules<\/a> in the Orion nebula. The existence of oxygen in space makes sense, since it&#8217;s the third most common element in the universe. It&#8217;s taken something like 230 years for anyone to detect it, though.<\/p>\n<p>The Herschel Space Observatory is one of those projects that demonstrates the benefits of international collaborative efforts.\u00a0Herschel is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Herschel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">major mission<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">European Space Agency<\/a>, with several nations contributing to the design and build of the instruments and the spacecraft.* However, Herschel is also supported by NASA resources. NASA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/herschel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Herschel Project Office<\/a> is based at JPL, a major contributor for two of the observatory&#8217;s three science instruments. JPL itself is a joint project of sorts, since Caltech manages it for NASA. International, multi-national cooperation at its most productive&#8212;they found oxygen, after all.<\/p>\n<p>*By my reckoning, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States all contributed during the industrial phase of the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool: \u00a0the large telescope of the Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope or FIRST)\u00a0has detected oxygen molecules in the Orion nebula. The existence of oxygen in space makes sense, since it&#8217;s the third most common element in the universe. It&#8217;s taken something like 230 years for anyone to detect it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}