The Messenger No. 159 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:

• SPHERE Science Verification
• The Return of the Mid-infrared to the VLT: News from the VISIR Upgrade
• An Unbiased Near-infrared Interferometric Survey for Hot Exozodiacal Dust
• An Astrophysical Laboratory: Understanding and Exploiting the Young Massive Cluster Westerlund 1
• The GIRAFFE Inner Bulge Survey (GIBS)

Download The Messenger in PDF format or visit The Messenger website to subscribe and receive a free printed copy.

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory

• Total Lunar Eclipse – 3rd ‘ Bloon Moon’ on April 4 – Shortest Eclipse of Century (+Video)
• The Sound of Stars Discovered
• Fatty acids may have been found on Mars
• Amateur astronomers: how and where to report discoveries
• As It Turns Out, We Really Are All Starstuff
• Astronomy Cast Ep. 371: The Eddington Eclipse Experiment
• The People of NewSpace: Will Hampton – The Time Is Now
• Pluto Update
• Stellar collision explains 17th century explosion
• VIDEO: Orion’s heat shield arrives at MSFC