Herschel Science Archive

Herschel has been designed to observe the `cool universe'; it is observing the structure formation in the early universe, resolving the far infrared cosmic background, revealing cosmologically evolving AGN/starburst symbiosis and galaxy evolution at the epochs when most stars in the universe were formed, unveiling the physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium and its molecular clouds, the wombs of the stars, and unravelling the mechanisms governing the formation of and evolution of stars and their planetary systems, including our own solar system, putting it into context. In short, Herschel is opening a new window to study how the universe has evolved to become the universe we see today, and how our star the sun, our planet the earth, and we ourselves fit in.

赫歇尔望远镜被设计用于观测‘冷却宇宙’；它正在观测早期宇宙的结构形成，解析远红外宇宙背景，揭示宇宙学演化的活动星系团/星暴共生现象与星系演化，这些现象发生在大多数宇宙中的恒星形成时代，揭露了星际介质及其分子云的物理与化学特性，即恒星的孕育之地，以及解开制约恒星及其行星系统形成与演化的机制，包括我们自己的太阳系，并将其置于适当的语境之中。简而言之，赫歇尔望远镜正在开启一扇新窗口，以研究宇宙如何演变成我们今天所见的宇宙，以及我们的恒星——太阳，我们的星球——地球，以及我们自身在其中所占的位置。