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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