Messenger Issue 149

The Messenger is a quarterly journal presenting ESO's activities to the public. The highlights of this edition published in September 2012 include:

• A report on the calibration of HARPS at the exo-Earth detection limit.
• An update of the progress made in the construction of the second generation VLT instrument SPHERE (the Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument).
• An article about new surprises in old stellar clusters.
• First results from an ALMA survey of submillimetre Galaxies.
• A report on the mm-VLBI (Very-long-baseline interferometry) meeting on 27 June 2012.

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