The Messenger No. 161 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:

• History of Polish Astronomy
• Shaping ESO 2020+ Together: Feedback from the Community Poll
• Simultaneous HARPS and HARPS-N observations of the Earth Transit of 2014 as seen from Jupiter: detection of an Inverse Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
• Using Solar Twins to explore the Planet-Star Connection with unparalleled precision
• Red Supergiants as Cosmic Abundance Probes

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

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory

• Actual Alien Photograph from 1960′s
• From flight crew to Flight
• Remembering the Vela Incident
• Mars Space Odyssey: Red Planet’s Departure Lounge is the Start-Point for the Outbound Passage (Video)
• Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies May Be Rarer Than Previously Thought
• Astronomers Identify a New Mid-Size Black Hole
• Allied Council Intergalactic Report – ET
• Pluto Shows Signs Of Possible Past Life On It
• ‘O Columbia’
• Matt Damon of ‘The Martian’ Explains NASA’s Journey to Mars – ISS Crew Previews Film on Orbit