ESO Releases The Messenger No. 148

(Before It's News)

The latest edition of ESO’s quarterly journal, The Messenger, is now available online. Find out the latest from ESO, with topics ranging from new telescopes and instruments to the latest discoveries. Highlights include:

• A report on the progress of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project.
• A description of POPIPlaN, an image catalogue of newly discovered southern planetary nebulae.
• A study of massive stars beyond the Magellanic Clouds using the X-shooter spectrograph.
• The story behind the use of renewable energy at the Paranal Observatory.

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory

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