Authors: Tracey Hill et al. Abstract We present the first Herschel PACS and SPIRE results of the Vela C molecular complex in the far-infrared and submillimetre regimes at 70, 160, 250, 350, and 500 um, spanning the peak of emission of cold prestellar or protostellar cores.

MW2011 The Milky Way in the Herschel Era Towards a Galaxy-scale view of the Star Formation Life-cycle Rome, September 19-23 2011 "Angelicum" Congress Centre Pontificia Università S. Tommaso d'Aquino

ESA’s Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that they may result from interstellar sonic booms throughout our Galaxy.

A new publication from the Gould Belt survey programme (Arzoumanian et al.). Here is the abstract: We provide a first look at the results of the Herschel Gould Belt survey toward the IC5146 molecular cloud and present a preliminary analysis of the filamentary structure in this region.