Jonathon Amos follows the engineers and astronomers who are working on the biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most important missions in the history of European spaceflight ...

The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these protostars, called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, both of which take their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey ...

You can see a perfect replica of the telescope at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy 19 ... and rightly claimed 'I have looked further into space than any human being did before me.' ...