The Messenger No. 162 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 articles on:

• The Scientific Return of VLT Programmes
• The First Component of the Adaptive Optics Facility Enters Operations: The Laser Traffic Control System on Paranal
• The European ALMA Regional Centre Network: A Geographically Distributed User Support Model
• The Central Orion Nebula (M42) as Seen by MUSE
• Revealing the Complex Dynamics of the Atmospheres of Red Supergiants with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer

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

This product is available for sale in the ESOshop. Deliveries will commence from 11 January 2016.

Courtesy of European Southern Observatory

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• Nearby Star Hosts Closest Alien Planet in the ‘Habitable Zone’
• Monster Planet Is “Dancing with the Stars” – Video
• Ceres Dwarf Planet Anomalies In Amazing False Color
• New Research Finds Cosmic Clumpy Donut around Black Hole
• Hubble Sees The Force Awakening in a Newborn Star
• ‘The Force Awakens’ in space
• Moisture Vaporators, Death Star Construction and Other Real Star Wars Tech
• Alien Contact?. The Southern Television Broadcast Interruption 1977
• From the moon to Switzerland