The Messenger No. 158 Now Available

(Before It's News)

The latest edition of ESO’s quarterly journal, The Messenger, is now available online. Find out the latest news from ESO on topics ranging from new instruments to the latest science discoveries.

Highlights of this edition include:

• Way forward for the E-ELT: Details of ESO Council Decision
• Fifteen Years of Service Mode Operations: Closing the Loop with the Community
• The Eta Carinae Homunculus in Full 3D with X-shooter and Shape
• STREGA: STRucture and Evolution of the GAlaxy with the VST
• CLASH-VLT: A VIMOS Large Programme to Map the Dark Matter Mass Distribution in Galaxy Clusters and Probe Distant Lensed Galaxies

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In you do not confirm your print subscription before 20 January 2015, we will assume you no longer have an interest in receiving The Messenger in print form, but you can of course continue reading it online.

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory

• Martian Teardrop: Here’s How The Sun Moves Over A Red Planet Year
• Could Mercury Get A Meteor Shower From Comet Encke?
• Detecting Stretched-out Solid Exoplanets
• CryoSat Reveals Small Decrease In Arctic Ice Volume
• Premiere Of NASA’s Fruit Fly Lab
• Signs Of Ancient Mars Lakes And Quakes Seen In New Map
• NASA Super Guppy Plane Delivers Large Composite Structure For Testing
• How NASA Filmed Humans Last Leaving The Moon, 42 Years Ago
• New Signal May Be Evidence of Dark Matter, Say Researchers
• Skywalker X-33