Messenger Issue 140

The Messenger is a quarterly journal presenting ESO's activities to the public. The highlights of this edition published in June 2010 include:

  • A roundup of proposed instruments for the planned E-ELT;
  • An in-depth look at the FORS instruments on the VLT on the occasion of their double 10th anniversary;
  • Updates on new advances in adaptive optics;
  • How astronomers are using the CRIRES spectrograph on the VLT to search for exoplanets orbiting very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs; and
  • Wolf-Rayet stars and the search for the origins of gamma ray bursts.

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About the Messenger

Id:messenger_0140
Release date:15 December 2010, 12:43
Dimensions:21 cm (W) x 29.5 cm (H) x 0.3 cm (D)
Pages:68
Cover:Softcover
Language:English

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