Messenger Issue 148

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

• A report on the progress of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project.
• A description of POPIPlaN, an image catalogue of newly discovered southern planetary nebulae.
• A study of massive stars beyond the Magellanic Clouds using the X-shooter spectrograph.
• The story behind the use of renewable energy at the Paranal Observatory.

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