Image of the Day: 23/6/14

(Photo Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/HOBYS)

The European Space Agency’s Herschel space observatory captured this amazing image showing a sequence of star-forming regions in the molecular cloud W48, which is 10,000 light-years away from Earth in the Aquila constellation.

Image of the Day: 22/6/14

(Photo credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Whitman College)

This gorgeous photo was captured by The Herschel Space Observatory who uncovered this unusual ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538.